Word: grand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Attaboy, Jimmy! . . . You show'em! Jimmy! . . . Good luck, Jimmy! . . . Get in there and fight, Jimmy!" The friendly farewells of some 5,000 raucous New Yorkers echoed in the Grand Central Station last week as their saucy little Mayor. James John Walker, entrained for Albany. A few hostile boos were silenced by cheers and police fists. With the Mayor, as usual when he is in a tight place politically, was his plump little wife, Janet Allen Walker, carrying her white poodle Togo. "My place," she said, "is beside my husband. If the worst comes, we can go to my Iowa...
...government of long-necked Eamon de Valera was accused by the governors of the Cork North Infirmary last week of withholding nearly $2,600,000 due to Irish hospitals as results of the last three Irish Hospitals' Sweepstakes (on the November Handicap, the Grand National, the Derby...
...Federal forces maneuvered importantly in this fifth week of the revolution without producing any concrete results. President Vargas issued a decree last week calling for three new infantry battalions and 800 more cavalry troopers. It was admitted that the Federal troops have had no great success. A grand mass offensive with airplanes, tanks, artillery and infantry was promised for next week...
...Grand Hotel and other recent films, all the action in Skyscraper Souls takes place under one roof. Director Edgar Selwyn, who thinks writers for the cinemas deserve more credit than directors, had a less vivid mob to handle than the one in American Madness, but he disposed them so ably about the corridors and offices of the Dwight Building that its interior seems more densely populated and lively than that of most real edifices of comparable size. Typical shot: Banker Dwight guzzling champagne with his secretary's stenographer while artfully persuading her to take a trip on his yacht...
When silver became king and William Jennings Bryan was its herald, mining and cattle men splashed with their fortunes into Denver. Notable was vulgar Senator Horace Arthur Warner ("Silver Dollar") Tabor who built the pretentious Tabor Grand Opera House, birthplace of Denver's culture, now the Tabor Grand, a cinemansion. Of Shakespeare's picture on the proscenium, Tabor said, "What the hell did he ever do for Denver? Paint him out and put me up there." Eugene Field, then managing editor of the Denver Tribune, wrote the poem "Modjesky as Cameel" as a picture of a frontier first night...