Word: grand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jones Jr., an observer in a gallery of 4,000, picked the sandy-haired, moose-nosed Canadian for the title. Meanwhile near Port Chester, N. Y., George Lyon, now white-haired and 74, was leading a team in the U. S. Senior Championship. Though his team was defeated, the Grand Old Man of Canadian golf turned in a 74 to win the international individual title in the play for the Lord Derby...
...Twenty Grand, Mrs. Payne Whitney's famed 4-year-old racehorse: the Irish Lad Purse at Belmont Park, N. Y., his first race since being retired last September with a minor injury...
Oldtime Newsman Frank Ward O'Malley sailed for Europe as a self-elected missionary of U. S. culture. Said he: "There's a grand opportunity for enlightenment on Route 4, for instance, which runs all the way from the Riviera into Italy without a single billboard, not one barbecue stand, and only one place ... so far as I know . . . where a guy can buy a hot dog . . . the children over there, too . . . wouldn't dream of saying, 'Oh, shut up, pop' or 'Scram' to a grey-haired parent. No modernism about them...
...unstable character. When Halo ran off to Europe with Vance, her husband's cold vanity was wounded; he refused to give her a divorce. For a while she did not mind. She was sure Vance had the makings of a great writer; in the meantime they would have a grand time discovering Europe together. But Vance turned out to be unexpectedly impressionable. New people and places, if they did not upset him, influenced him too much. Soon Halo found herself neglected, left alone while Vance went off on expeditions with friends or to parties where she was not invited. When...
...theme is unimportant, but the set- ting is grand. As in countless other plays, "Candida" for one, a beautiful young wife must choose between the new respectability, social idealism, and homey security, as against reckless emotional love. The lovely lady is Elena of the Aristocrats who has faced the revolution bravely and become the wife of a psychoanalyst, eminent in "Vienna's only remaining industry." This is not a marriage of love or understanding, just a practical marriage, and has been made miserable with specters and names from Elena's glamorous history. Then the relicts of the Hapsburg Court return...