Word: grand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When opera companies drifted up from South America the city would turn out full force, throw bags of gold to the performers. The old Tivoli Opera House started its career in 1875. Beer flavored the performances there but, alternating light opera and grand, the house managed to keep open all year round-an achievement never equaled in the U. S. The Metropolitan Opera visited San Francisco three times-with Calve, Melba, Eames, Schumann-Heink, Fremstad, Gadski, Sembrich. Caruso, the de Reszkes. Early one morning during the third visit the earth started rumbling and quaking, knocked the entire company...
...indictment makes no reference to the details of the supposed fraud and misrepresentation in the case. The crime has been committed, says the Grand Jury, because on such & such a date some of these securities were sent to purchasers through the mail. This evidence when presented to the trial jury may be supported by an attack on the accuracy of certified balance sheets and operating statements, or it may deal with careless preparation of sales circulars which resulted in "misrepresentation" and loss to purchasers. If it is the latter aspect, one item for comment will be the sale...
...order to secure a nation-wide expression of undergraduate opinion on the presidential election, the returns from the CRIMSON poll will be averaged in under the auspices of the Daily Princetonian with those of a large number of other polls being held in American colleges, and the grand totals announced about a week later
...baby grand piano and a combination recording phonograph and radio have been placed in the newly opened Adams House music room for the use of House members. The room, on the ground floor of the new Russell Hall, is virtually soundproof, and is the only one of its type in any House...
...King is openly cursed," said the Tory, "I might as well be in the infernal regions as in this country where my sentiments are known." And the President of Harvard College said in a sermon, "When one form of government is found by the majority not to answer the grand purpose in any tolerable degree, they may by common consent set up another." So began the American Revolution, in times when patriots poured lofty sentiments into the ears of their fellows, and pots of tar over the heads of hated "loyalists." The Vagabond remembers, as the Vagabond remembers most things...