Word: grand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...72nd Congress should be unexpectedly called into special session next week, the Senate as well as the House would be Democratic. On paper the Republicans lost control of the upper body last week when Colorado's Governor Adams appointed Democrat Walter Walker, newspaper publisher (Grand Junction Sentinel) to the vacancy caused by the death of Republican Senator Charles Winfield Waterman. Present Senate lineup: Democrats, 48; Republicans, 47; Farmer Laborite, I. Enveloped in legal uncertainty was the question of whether Senator-designate Walker would take his seat Dec. 5 or whether Colorado would elect a short-term Senator in November...
What they said: James J. Walker (boarding the brand new 54,000-ton Rex, "Largest Ship Built Since The War," at Genoa): "If I were Mayor. New York would give this ship a grand show on her arrival-with fire boats and all the trimmings New York loves!" Captain Francisco Tarabotto (while Citizen Walker rushed back to his hotel for some left-behind papers'): "I will not wait one minute after twelve o'clock noon!" Five thousand Italians (standing at Fascist salute on Genoa piers as the Rex sailed with Citizen Walker aboard at the last minute): "Viva...
Between Chicago's Samuel Insull and Philadelphia's Mary Louise Curtis Bok there was never much in common except that they both backed grand opera. For reasons which everyone knows. Chicago will have no grand opera this winter...
Last week the Philadelphia Grand Opera Company also suspended performances for a year, but its reason was not quite Chicago's. Advance sales were bad. but it was also announced that Conductor Leopold Stokowski wanted an off-year to perfect a new form of "drama with music" for 1933-34. The Curtis-Bok fortune is far, far from collapse but Mrs. Bok has the expensive Curtis Institute on her hands. If in the next few months another patron for Philadelphia's opera appears, her friends suspect that she will not be sorry...
Noteworthy is the fact that the famed flagwaving manner of beaming, grey-haired, wry-mouthed George Michael Cohan in The Phantom President conveys the real excitement of his own sincere convictions. When he sings, "It's a grand old flag, Don't let it drag," it sounds like a new and tremendous idea of his own. When he prances, he does it like a supersalesman who knows he is good. No actor, he carries off his part ably simply by continually remembering he is George Michael Cohan...