Word: grand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...GRAND HOTEL?A noteworthy play about a series of fairly cosmic happenings in a German hostelry...
March 27?Ninety-second Grand National steeplechase; at Aintree, England. Important departures: limiting entry to lorses "placed" in previous races, raising of minimum age & weight. YACHTING...
March 6-29?Exhibition of the Society of Independent Artists; at Grand Central Palace, Manhattan. Prizes: none...
...been the father, there is a great scandal. But nothing can be done and the old Prince is kindly and forgiving, even to the rascally assistant kennelman Peter who left the gate open. And the summer passes with great happiness and much excitement, for it is known that the Grand Duke Nikita, the Tsar's viciously cruel old uncle,† has invited himself to hunt with the Prince in the autumn. He is coming with his whole hunting train-a set of rakehells mostly from the cavalry -and his best hounds and horses, his finest borzois with their terrific...
...Prince's dogs outdo the Grand Duke's in the hunt. Enraged, that fine gentleman flicks an eye from one of his hounds with his whip and gets toweringly drunk after dinner. It is unpleasant to think of him as commander of all Russia's cavalry and, later, of all the Russian armies. For even the dogs are conscious that something unusual, something dark and dreadful is coming to pass-the War, entered into by the Romanovs to gloss over their moral and mental shortcomings. To a dog like Siedoi, excitement is always welcome...