Word: grand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...association of Grand Rapids furniture with gaudiness and lack of taste reflects wrongfully upon the standing of the product in industry and indicts the judgment of the thousands of American people who regard their Grand Rapids furniture as a cultural enrichment of their homes. Grand Rapids, for more than a half century, has set the furniture styles of this country...
...Twenty Grand...
Awarded. To Hernand Behn, president of International Telephone & Telegraph Corp., the Grand Cross of the Order of St. Gregory the Great, by Pope Pius; to Psychiatrist Earl Danford Bond,.Philadelphia's $10,000 Bok prize for city service; to James Orr Elton, Anaconda Copper Mining Co. metallurgist, the 1933 James Douglas Medal, for improvements in smelting lead, zinc & silver; to Author Richmond Pearson Hobson, the Congressional Medal of Honor, for heroism in the Spanish-American War; to the University of Chicago's George Frederick & Gladys Henry Dick, the University of Edinburgh 1933 Cameron Prize, for discovering the scarlet...
Died. Count Albert Apponyi, 86, Hungary's Grand Old Man and No. 1 League of Nations delegate; of pneumonia; in Geneva. A 6 ft.-6 in., spadebearded member of one of the foremost and oldest Magyar families (founded 1235), he long bickered against Habsburg absolutism, favored broadened suffrage. But in 1922 he declared for Habsburg's Otto as the "uncrowned" king of Hungary...
...Said he: "I kissed her, and so did my wife: and a mighty pretty soul she is." When she was 17 Lord Buckhurst gave her her first vacation from the stage; soon after, the Merry Monarch himself looked her way. Nell's cockney wit was never abashed by grand company. She made her royal lover laugh by saying that "he might be Charles the Second to the rest of his subjects, but that to her he was Charles the Third." (She had had two Charleses before...