Word: grand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There was no surer way of rousing rage. Australians disagree among themselves about almost everything (State jealousy has given the Dominion three separate railway gauges) but they have in common a grand wholehearted despisal of anything and everything to do with...
...defeating MM Claviez and Peysson, French Indo-China's champions, was 5-7, 6-1, 6-0. After this triumph all three Davises motored out to Pnom Penh, capital of Cambodia (French), seat of that good-natured puppet, King Sisowath Monivong. Upon Governor General Davis, His Majesty bestowed the Grand Cordon of the Royal Order. Stiff little women in pearl-encrusted cloth-of-gold performed a royal ballet. Then the Davis party motored on to Siam, lamenting perhaps that U. S. Colonial policy does not permit the existence of genial kings who could thrill distinguished visitors by conferring on them...
...long odyssey of Miner Home is unusual because it has a perfect ending. On the shores of Grand Lake, Nova Scotia, near the town of Enfield where he was born 66 years ago, he has retired on his winnings, built for himself a big dwelling in the seclusion of the pines...
Once a year New Yorkers, who must live and work in one of the most barren cities on the continent, may go to Grand Central Palace to see such gardens and such flowers as never grew in the open air. Over 25,000 flower-lovers went there the opening day. The gardens and flowers were provided not only by garden clubs and nurserymen but by some of the greatest names in U. S. finance: John Pierpont Morgan, Sidney Zollicoffer Mitchell, George Fisher Baker, Mrs. Payne Whitney, Hiram Edward Manville, Otto Hermann Kahn...
Congress, after three reporters of Hearst's Washington Times had gone to jail for refusing to tell a Grand Jury the names and addresses of speakeasies described in a Times survey. No Federal law materialized...