Word: grand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile last week Cordials & Beverages continued in its accustomed, wide-open, prosperous way. The U. S. District Attorney's office said it had evidence of a purchase made there, said that the case would be tried "in regular order" after an indictment had been obtained from a grand jury. One Mike at the liquor store scoffed at the idea that Federal agents would molest him, arranged for liquor deliveries a week in advance...
...last week the gutters of the Himalayas ran news. Sometime ago- goodness knew when-and for some reason or other-goodness knew what-an army of 60,000 sturdy soldiers marched from Nepal and were last week ominously approaching Lhasa, famed "Forbidden City," capital of that remote pope the Grand Dalai Lama of Tibet...
Possibly the trouble is that His Holiness has not scrupulously paid the 10,000 rupees annual tribute he must pay the Mahara-jadhiraya of Nepal according to a still-valid "perpetual unity" signed in 1856. Whatever the trouble, the Grand Dalai Lama despatched couriers weeks ago who reached the terminus of a Chinese telegraph last week and sent frantic appeals for troops to the Chinese Nationalist Government in Nanking, promising to pay them well if they will travel and march about 2,500 miles to the defense of Lhasa...
Honored. Owen D. Young, with the Grand Cross of the Order of the Crown of Belgium; John Pierpont Morgan, with the Belgian Grand Cross of the Order ot Leopold...
...Manhattan, a dapper, well-dressed little man with a big suitcase rushed into Grand Central Station shouting: ''I'm going away from New York. It's too much...