Word: grand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nine days in the grand ballroom of Chicago's Palmer House, 1.500 representatives of 21 standard railway unions and a committee of nine managers representing 210 Class 1 U. S. roads stubbornly locked horns over the matter of railroad wages. Time after time the conference was on the brink of rupture...
...Brothers exploited Silver Dollar cleverly. Before the picture was nationally released last week, they distributed 12,000 silver dollars in change to patrons who bought tickets at the Strand Theatre in Manhattan. To a special opening in Den ver three weeks ago (in the Denver Theatre, near the Tabor Grand Opera House which is now a cinema theatre) so many notables were invited that the premiere was Denver's most brilliant since the Tabor Grand Opera House opened its dcrors in 1881 with Maritana. Among the notables who failed to attend...
...which the brothers would not offend the public by pretending sexual interest in their sister. Rasputin not only solves this problem but gives two of the Barrymores a chance to execute their specialties. Lionel spits on the floor and regurgitates even more loudly than he did in Grand Hotel. Ethel wears a nurse's headdress like the nun's towel she had in The Kingdom of God and hums her lines so as to sound thoroughly regal. Director Richard Boleslavsky, imported from the Moscow Art Theatre, saw to it that the production had surface authenticity, managed sometimes...
...Glenfield Elementary & Junior High School, was charged with beating 11-year-old Delardo Leva about the head and back with a rubber hose ("gold-fish"). Sabatto Leva, father, declared that as a result his son had contracted rheumatic fever aggravated by a weakened heart. Principal Rose was paroled pending grand jury action...
Columbia University gave way to New York University as the nation's biggest, with a grand total of 27,682 to N. Y. U.'s 27,905. Other biggests: full-time total (University of California, 19,282); liberal arts (U. of C., 11,157); women (Hunter College of the City of New York, 4,416); technology (M. I. T., 2,343); law (Harvard, 1,509); education (Teachers College of Columbia University, 5,210); commerce (Pennsylvania. 1,979); medicine (Northwestern, 661); dentistry (Pennsylvania, 509); divinity (Boston University, 349); summer courses (Columbia...