Word: grand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...since it dealt with Prohibition. Its findings dealt with prosecutions. As all the world knows it discovered an evil link between criminal organizations and local politics. Declared the report: "In some cases campaign funds are derived from what amounts to licensed violations of the law." It found that the grand jury had ceased to be an agency for real criminal investigation, advised that it be done away with as a source of indictments. Its recommendations included: 1) elimination of politics in appointing U. S. attorneys; 2) better selection of States' attorneys; 3) centralized control of prosecutions in each State...
...French Lick, Ind. last week to attend the Governors' Conference. That left Lieutenant Governor Lawrence Wilson in charge of the State with all the powers and privileges of a chief executive. One of his first official acts was to pardon his brother Fred, convicted last March of grand larceny and awaiting formal sentence of four years in jail...
Long after he is gone Stanford will vividly remember its Grand Old Man? his Thursday evenings at-home in a big firelit living room which he specially rebuilt to make room for more friends and conversation; the adult atmosphere he fostered on the campus ("College men should marry college women, as they are more nearly mental equals. ... A man sees the best women he'll ever see while in college"); his word-coining ("quacktitioner," "pluviculture," "sciosophy" meaning organized ignorance); his abhorrence of liquor, tobacco, ignorance, arrogance, vulgarity (he said some people should write a "V" before their names); a fine...
...despair ahead. ... It is high time we segregate . . . the advocates of our retirement from the foreign field in the interests of our hard-pressed rivals overseas 'who need trade more than we do.' Perhaps for the purposes of identification we might decorate those noble-hearted altruists with the Grand Order of the Yellow Streak, while the rest of our more brazenly acquisitive tradesmen, with a full recognition of the gravity of the situation, turn to a consideration of the facts, not of the phantoms...
From experience with Harvard men generally it would seem certain that graduates from prisons presided over by these "B. B. R's" will no longer call prison "stir," nor $1,000 "a grand" or use any of the rest of the argot of the underworld we now know. Rather we may expect "Chappie" to replace "Cul" as a title of address and "loot" to take the place of "swag." All of which will be quite a bit pleasanter to the car, we admit, but quite outre. New Haven Register...