Word: grand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Society of Tammany, patriotic mainspring of New York City's practical Democratic machine, violated its own by-laws for the 19th consecutive time last week when it allowed John R. Voorhis to continue for another year as Grand Sachem. Under its rules a Grand Sachem serves one year, cannot be reelected. Mr. Voorhis was chosen Grand Sachem in 1912 when he was 83. He has served ever since as honorary head of Tammany Hall through the inability of the Sachems to muster a majority vote in favor of someone else. Each passing year they have expected Time to settle...
...given her daughter an income of $50,000, which accounted for the lordly way in which the Director of Oxford's Institute of Agriculture was now living (his salary was only ?1,000). As late as Feb. 2 last "Dr." & Mrs. Owen were having in London a grand & glorious time. On Feb. 3, Dr. Owen was called upon by Augustus Maxwell Rode, controller and assistant treasurer of International Harvester Company of America, whose office is in Brussels. Mr. Rode and Dr. Owen had words. "Does this mean that your company doubts my bona fides?" drawled Oxonian Owen. Controller Rode...
...brick terrace behind the clubhouse. Equipoise, the winter-book favorite owned by Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney, but no longer favored since his beatings in the Chesapeake Stakes and the Preakness, had been scratched because of a blind quarter (hidden bruise) discovered in his right fore leg that morning. Twenty Grand, coupled in the betting with Surf Board and Anchors Aweigh, was the favorite. A. C. Bostwick's Mate, the Preakness winner, was second choice and the rest of the dozen starters were at lengthening odds to the field horses and one absurd long shot, Prince D'Amour...
...Curley who once taught him how to ride a bicycle. Boxer Max Schmeling stood and looked at the crowd with his habitually puzzled expression. Actress Queenie Smith made excited comments to her escort Drama critic Robert Garland. Blind Thomas Pryor Gore, onetime Senator from Oklahoma said he liked Twenty Grand. John Hertz remembered the year his Reigh Count won the Derby. Jockey Earl Sande, who won last year, said he liked Mate and leaned his back against the paddock rail, waiting for the moment when he would be called to say a few words over the N. B. C. hookup...
...grandest spectacles ever witnessed is to take place in the air; papers will round out a week of sweeping headlines, as the aetherial swarm completes its tour of the middle and Eastern United States. Few can realize the tremendous details of organization; even less will consider that this grand stunt is costing millions of the taxpayers' dollars, in a time of greatest depression...