Word: grand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Finally everybody yelled Hahvud and Hahvud and flagged red waves and I was floored so I leaned on the tire so they could all get out over me. I had a grand rest...
...somewhat to do with two Johns called Boles and Barrymore and a Gladys whose last handle is Swarthout. I make a note that I will give that one the bird in my review. Notwithstanding, almost at once comes along a beer baron who is none other than that grand little gee, Edward G. Robinson. I start to take notice; this Mr. Robinson has got the stuff, I decide. The story is a killer. In several ways it is a killer. First of all several gees get killed to help the plot along. Second, I get a few real laughs...
...crush the rugged old man and build his own fortune on the ruins. Thus in this play Howard seeks to show how Mammon rules supreme, and how even the highly respectable Protestant ministers are his priests, but at the same time he insists upon virtue triumphant in the grand, unblushing style, and pits two heroes, a stout old man and a simple, good-natured youth, against an unconscionable dastard...
...indicted on charges of grand larceny, Whitney is said to have misappropriated $108,000 as a co-trustee of a trust fund belonging to his wife's family, Sheldon by name, and benefiting among others Harvard University...
...Focus Editor Leslie T. White managed last week to put his brand-new monthly picture magazine in the news by getting himself indicted for criminal libel by a Texas grand jury. Once one of California's best and most disillusioned detectives, Editor White wrote a modest best seller (Me, Detective) in 1936. In Focus, promoted through stock subscriptions, he began a pictorial crusade against national evils, for his first picked San Antonio's pecan-shelling industry...