Word: grand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...writer's productions, that is not inferior in throughness to the best German treatments of the subject. Each of Meyer's works has been carefully analyzed, both quantatively and qualitatively, with the intent of determining the degree to which they express his often-quoted purpose of creating "grand style, grand art", and of conjuring up plastically tangible figures". Almost two-thirds of this book is devoted to these topics, and not until the validity has been firmly established, does the author occupy himself with pointing out the relation of Meyer's style to his personality, and in summarizing...
...impenetrable disguise.* The editorial introduction urges the substitution of a financial-economic system cut to fit the present age of plenty in place of one that is tailored by the banking system expressly for a machine-murdered age of want. Contributors include Hilaire Belloc and Grand Duchess Marie of Russia. Will Dyson, onetime cartoonist of the Labor Party's Daily Herald, prints a scathing etching; Paul Banks reviews the drama, Storm Jameson, novels. From a "Western Newspaper Man" Editor Orage has received and amazingly printed a scurrilous parody of the 23rd Psalm which has for many months circulated...
Died. Harry Kelsey Devereux, 72, Cleveland socialite, onetime president of the Grand Circuit Racing Association and of the American Association of TrottingHorse Breeders, model for the drummer boy in the late A. M. Willard's* painting The Spirit of '76; at Thomasville, Ga.; of heart failure...
Samuel T. Shaw, deaf, white-haired, was once an art student but he went into the hotel business to make more money. With Simeon Ford, chief rival of Chauncey Depew as an after dinner speaker in the terrapin stew era, he owned the lamented Grand Union Hotel on 42nd Street. The Grand Union vied with Delmonico's and the Café Lafayette for the best food in the city. Its Hasenpfeffer and roast oysters were famed. It boasted a vast T-shaped bar at which beer was dispensed from the transepts, mixed drinks along the nave. Like every other...
...poor fisherman's daughter. Mattie vaguely senses that he is repeating her own headlong mistake, but she encourages him in memory of the brief bliss she once knew. Bessie Casey, though no equal, will make a good wife. Captain Archer consoles himself with the thought that great-grand-children were what he wanted most...