Word: grand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dozen or so similar groups whose members gave aid to the National Socialist Party in Germany throughout the late 20's. In 1933 these groups were merged as "Friends of New Germany," run by Heinz Spanknobel, a Nazi party member. Herr Spanknobel, indicted by a New York Federal Grand Jury for failing to register as the agent of a foreign nation, speedily fled to Nazi Germany. In 1934 a Congressional Committee investigated the Friends of New Germany, found it "for ail practical purposes the American section of the Nazi party." The Friends changed this name to Amerikadeutscher Volksbund...
...ideals of the League are grand and magnificent, and I'll never believe they are not ultimately attainable, but we cannot bring them nearer by pretending they are within our grasp today. Why should we mislead them by giving people assurance of 'collective security' when such assurance can only be a delusion...
...also a 20th-century ace, adept at machine-gunning troops from his plane in daring swoops and dives directly over the trenches. Romantic Venice was only a few minutes flight from the front, and Italian beauties got the greatest thrills of their lives, bedding in palaces beside the Grand Canal with a national hero who in fact flew off at dawn to fight the Austrians, returned for lunch or dinner at the latest...
...much-bossed President, Federico Laredo Bru, who has long been expected to announce his resignation after this election, kept mum last week about himself, but made a possibly ironic speech of "thanks" to citizens of Santiago for their "demonstrative" greeting to his "representative," Batista, on the occasion of a grand fiesta celebrating the 43rd anniversary of the beginning of Cuba's struggle for independence...
...King Francis I to Fécamp in 1534 to drink it, was a European favorite by the time of the French Revolution. Then the Benedictine monastery at Fécamp was destroyed, the monks dispersed, the secret of Elixir apparently lost forever. In 1863, however, Monsieur Alexander Le Grand of Fécamp chanced on an ancient tome in which Dom Vincelli's formula had been scribbled. The Le Grand family promptly began making Elixir again and now it is a world-wide favorite under the name Benedictine...