Word: grand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...proclamation upon first seizing national power. Actually it was a measure about to become law of the land. The striking words prefaced the National Industrial Recovery Bill which President Roosevelt sent to Congress last week for immediate enactment. After weeks of talk the 4,000-word measure represented the grand climax of President Roosevelt's domestic attack on the Depression, his Two-Year Plan "to put people to work...
...match her there is a new John Barrymore, emerging from the mists of reserve and whimsy felt rather than seen in "Rasputin and the Empress," and in "Grand Hotel." The slow tempo of these parts probably derives from that streak in Barrymore which made an unduly ruminative Hamlet in the old days, while these dashing airs, this hereditarial madness of Hapsburgs and Barrymores recalls Prince Hal of a past decade. In the role of a self-infoxteated. Vienna-crazed Hapsburg Grand Duke, the last of those emotional extroverts known as Prince Charmings, John Barrymore makes Mr. Lunt's "Prince Rudolph...
...ALWAYS A GRAND DUKE-Alexander, Grand Duke of Russia-Farrar & Rine- hart...
Alexander, onetime Grand Duke of Russia, cousin and brother-in-law of the late Tsar, died in February on the Riviera. In this posthumous book of post-Revolution memoirs he has told, with a cynical eye to U. S. readers, what it felt like to be a Romanoff in exile...
...Englishwoman at Biarritz, but it came to nothing because she insisted on marriage and his wife would not give him a divorce. He became a spiritualist. Finally he did the accepted thing, went to the U. S. as a lecturer. At his first lecture (in a Baptist church in Grand Rapids) the unexpected strains of the Russian National Anthem made him blench. Nothing else in the U. S. seems to have offended him, but this tactless reminder was too much for even his cynicism: thereafter it was distinctly understood that the Anthem should never be played in his presence...