Word: grand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Perhaps we are less admirable than the grand old pagans. Or perhaps, because we are tenderer, more so. It may be that in this that has been called "The Age of the Child" we rank the child too highly. That is a matter of opinion...
Like the Epsom Derby, the Manchester November Handicap, the Grand National is the subject of world-wide lotteries. This year U. S. newssheets were warned by the postal authorities that they would be prosecuted for advertising lotteries if they published the names of lottery winners in mail editions. Many a paper published the names of winners last week in their city editions but did not brave...
...yearly by beating the equinox with a display of such gorgeous flowers as never grew under open sky. Last week some two hundred thousand people paid $1 apiece to shuffle through the 19th International Flower Show, an exhibit that filled for the first time four full floors of the Grand Central Palace...
...Grand-Silver Receivership, Receivers last week took over the 115-store chain of F. & W. Grand 5?-10?-25? stores and the 49-store chain of Isaac Silver & Brothers Co., Inc. Both companies are owned by F. & W. Grand-Silver Stores, Inc. which last year had consolidated sales of $37,000,000, listed its assets...
Hotel Continental (Tiffany). Having stumbled upon unity-of-place in Vicki Baum's Grand Hotel, cinema producers have been fascinated by it, presumably because it contradicts the prime advantage of their medium-ubiquity. Hotel Continental varies the unity-of-place idea by nearly personifying it. This time the hotel is an old one about to be torn down and the denizens who scamper through its antique corridors are bent on the forlorn gaiety of a farewell party. Mingling with the other guests is a cosmopolitan thief (Theodore Von Eltz) who hopes to retrieve some money which he cached...