Word: grand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jerusalem correspondents badgered the Grand Mufti into a cryptic statement...
...quite good. But from this point on Playwright Galsworthy runs into third-act trouble. Unable to attain the brilliant crescendo of a Grand Hotel, Playwright Galsworthy gets all his characters to the roof of the hostelry-where they again show how civilized folk face a crisis-and finally permits all save the foolish incendiarist to be rescued by belated pompiers...
...about four sets of British folk in a small Paris hotel. In one room are three men and a 1 boy come to Paris-Berris to them, as they are actually British-for a lark. In another are two lovers, enjoying the prelude to what promises to be a grand passion. A porky gentleman and his porky wife argue good-naturedly in still another. The last group consists of a dying novelist, his wife and two charming children. At the close of Act I a fire is started by one of the merrymakers. Playwright Galsworthy then sets out to show...
Officially designated "Grand Old Man of Maine" by Governor William Tudor Gardiner, Dr. Julian Daniel Taylor is at 85 "dean of U. S. college professors." Rugged, venerable, he has taught Latin at Colby for 63 years. Though retired as professor emeritus, he still conducts a senior Latin course. Unanimously, Colby alumni elected him last summer to the board of trustees. Less rich than Harvard's President Abbott Lawrence Lowell or Groton's late William Amory Gardner, who left Groton $500,000, Harvard $100,000, he is comfortably off. Married in 1892 to Mary Keely Boutelle of Waterville...
...Lane brothers, who were both on the 1924 Harvard team that won the Intercollegiate Foils Championship, as well as the best men on the present squad, to participate in a few bouts with foils, sabre, and epee. Last year a special feature of the program was "Le Grand Salut", a series of involved passes and gestures, performed by Grasson and Peroy...