Word: grand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last September, was lured to his death. His corpse was found in an automobile occupied by Mrs. Granville Roland Fortescue, her son-in-law Lieut. Thomas Hedges Massie, whose wife had been attacked, and a naval enlisted man. Another enlisted man was later implicated. Last week in Honolulu a grand jury sat to ponder the crime. Just as any other panel controlled by white men from Kentucky to the Ubangi River might have done, the grand jurors refused to see any first-degree murder in the Kahahawai killing, reported against such an indictment of Mrs. Fortescue and the three Navy...
Conviction of second degree murder in Hawaii calls for a maximum penalty of life imprisonment at hard labor. Under a gentleman's agreement all noncapital offenses involving Naval personnel in Hawaii are tried by court martial. Rear Admiral Stirling advised the Navy Department that "undoubtedly" the grand jury's action was taken under the belief that the defendants, including Mrs. Fortescue, would ultimately come to the Navy, not to the civil courts, for justice. Meantime, the prisoners were released from the U. S. S. Alton at Pearl Harbor, put on probation under bail which...
...head bobbing toward him through the darkness. Gripping the bottom of the ladder with one hand, with the other he grabbed a man's limp body just before the filthy current swept into a 75-ft. down-drain. A rope pulled the half-conscious Debo up through the Grand Street manhole, 800 ft. from his starting point. Hospitalized, John Debo told his story...
...traditions be swallowed up in John Davison Rockefeller Jr.'s new commercialized enterprise. Radio City officials, tired of the Met's indecision, let it be known lately that opera of some description would be given there whether the Met came in or not. Leopold Stokowski announced that the Philadelphia Grand Opera would come over and give guest performances (TIME, Jan. 11). Chicago's Herbert Witherspoon conferred secretly with Samuel Lionel ("Roxy") Rothafel. Then there was a hint that the Chicago Civic Opera Company might also come on for occasional visits...
...Clark Gable and James Cagney, Fairbanks speaks rudely to Joan Blondell. At one point he fetches her a light clip on the jaw. Though Authors Kubec Glasmon and John Bright wrote dialog in their own idiom, the original authors, Gene Fowler and Joe Laurie Jr., were obviously thinking of Grand Hotel and possibly Transatlantic. But the cinema?artistically at least?is a good borrower and the fact is that stories in the pattern of Grand Hotel, Transatlantic, Union Depot are magnificently suited to cinematic 'expression. Fast, brief, unlikely and compact, this one is almost over before you remember to take...