Word: grand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Inez, Ky., John Mills choked his mother to death in a religious ceremony, went to jail. During the Grand Jury examination local politicians made electioneering speeches, witnesses left hearings to attend a medicine show, swap animals at a mule trading bee. During the trial witnesses absented themselves, mooned about town to "chaw the rag with, the folks," jurors chatted with friends, waved greetings. Presiding Judge J. F. Bailey spent an hour charging the jury, mentioned the case at hand in but one sentence, reprimanded one juror for hobnobbing. After deliberation the jury last week returned a verdict of guilty, sent...
Young Tommy Adair is a purebred English bulldog, son of a grand champion. Some day he may know the feel of smooth green carpet under his feet, the glare of arc lights, the eyeing of solemn experts who may award him ribbons and medals for his form, coat, stance, carriage. But already he has won a prize-in Ocean City, N. J. one day last week-simply for being so appallingly, truculently ugly...
...Hamilton Babbitt, r.w. r.w., Noyes Whitney, r.c. r.c., Morton Meiklejohn, l.c. l.c., Tupper Potter, l.w. l.w., Bogart Sherman, s.o.h. s.o.h., Donald Supper, h.b. h.b., Williamson Nazro, f. f., Nichols White, f. f., Wilbur Thorburn, f. f., Howland Oppenheimer, f. f., MacClenghen Burrage, f. f., Anthony Knapp, f. f., Grand Dockery, f. f., McEiroy Armstrong, f. f., Walther...
...score--Yale 14, Harvard 0. Trys--Morton, Wilbur, Grand. Conversion--Williamson. Drop kick--Donald. Referee--Johnson. Time of halves--30 minutes...
...roads, motorists and Gideon Bibles") Tschiffely spends few words. With pardonable pride, however, he tells how Mancha, his spirit still unbroken after some 10,000 mi., convinced a Governors Island sergeant he was unridable. After a Jimmy Walker reception in Manhattan, all three sailed back to the Argentine in grand style, Tschiffely to a triumphant homecoming, Mancha and Gato to a carefree old age on their native pampas...