Word: grand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next day, however, Grand Master Oscar went to Vienna for an Anschluss* festival, reviewed a parade of Austria's illegal but flourishing reactionary army, the Heimwehr...
Hottest locust battle of the week was that fought on the grand old Egyptian front by thousands of sweating natives directed by a mere handful of cool, efficient Englishmen, commanded by the British Inspector General of the Egyptian Army, famed "Spinks Pasha," Maj. General Sir Charlton Watson Spinks...
...Grand Master of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem is Prince Oscar, fifth son of Wilhelm II. Echoing his father's fervor, he cried in ringing tones to a gathering in Berlin of German princelings: "If you cannot serve with the Sword, serve with the Cross...
...What of it?" thought many an Englishman last week, as he read in the papers that the Grand Mufti of the Palestine Arabs had left London for home in a huff. What if the blighter was angry at Prime Minister MacDonald's refusal to grant certain demands? Merely this-the Grand Mufti, of course, is a Mohammedan. No sooner did news of Britain's snub to the Mufti reach troubled India (see above) than powerful 'Mohammedan elements, previously lukewarm toward St. Gandhi, a Hindu, began to throw their influence on the side of his campaign for Independence...
...Cassopolis, Mich., one F. A. Darling organized a club for lovers of Limburger cheese. Articles of incorporation, surmounted by a facsimile cheese, were promptly filed. "Aromas" (meetings) of the "bricks" (lodges) will henceforth be "deodorized" (adjourned) only by order of the "Grand Big Cheese" (F. A. Darling...