Word: grand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sorry administration. The Columbia pedagog's diagrams showed that the ratio of homicide convictions to known homicides had dropped to its lowest ebb in 25 years during the first year (1930) that Mr. Crain was prosecutor for New York County. Percentage of convictions for robbery, burglary, grand larceny and assault had done likewise...
...Esmond Ovey made no protest, went on quietly forking some excellent caviar. Beyond a doubt all the knives, forks and spoons on the table had been seized during the Russian Revolution from the then British Embassy-i.e. stolen. Never did the grand old motto of the British Royal Arms turn up more appropriately, "Shamed be he who thinks evil...
...Greentree Stable's Twenty Grand, co-favorite with Equipoise for the Kentucky Derby: the Wood Memorial at Jamaica beating Clock Tower by half a length. His time was a second better than Gallant Fox's last year...
...prose a commentary on the verse. If you don't mind getting your fingers a little greasy you may pull out many a ponderous plum from this fat Teutonic pudding. "The Hohenzollern family seems to have a talent for writing as well as for ruling. . . . My great-great-grand-uncle, Frederick the Great. . . ." Hohenzollern Viereck, it appears, has also been, if not a great ladies' man, at least a big woman's man. He tells of many a kiss and run. "On one memorable occasion I was compelled to hide under her bed in the same state...
Died. Sir Edward Clarke, 90, "Grand Old Man" of the British Bar, onetime (1886-92) Solicitor General, barrister in the baccarat cheating case in which Edward VII, then Prince of Wales, figured (TIME, March 9) and the trial of Dr. Jameson who led "Jameson's Raid" into the Transvaal in 1895; in London. In the London Times appeared his obituary, written by himself, describing his "very busy and very happy life" and revealing that his income for 17 years averaged...