Word: grand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Party has added 22,000 members in the past four months, the 500 delegates to the Party Builders' Congress were well rewarded. Like any salesmen's convention,the Congress started off witha banquet, included group discussions, sightseeing tours, inspection of choice Manhattan slums, luncheons in Chinatown restaurants. Grand finale was a monster rally in Madison Square Garden, with the principal pep talk delivered by Daily Worker Editor Clarence Hathaway, in place of Mr. Browder who was ill with the grippe...
...Works, The difference between the editorial mechanisms which produced the first and the 782nd issues of TIME is the difference between a minipiano and a grand piano. It has many more keys but it is still the same kind of machine...
...Grand Old Men. Because 14 ends of curling provide about the same amount of exercise as 18 holes of golf, the game is popular with oldsters. Every sport has a Grand Old Man. But in curling every team has one. He is the skip, a venerable player whose role during the game is tantamount to dictator. Last week when Caledonia faced Schenectady at Utica, Caledonia was led by grizzled James Whyte, 75, who thinks nothing of playing 42 ends in one day. Septuagenarian Whyte, aided by his teammate. Septuagenarian A. P. Roth, outplayed the comparatively young Schenectady team, beat them...
...patrons (mostly Negroes) of Philadelphia's Nixon Grand Theatre, Manager Si Cohen last week was preparing a rare treat. During the run of Damaged Goods, a photoplay dealing with the ravages of venereal disease, he planned to give on the stage at each evening show one free Wassermann test. To 100 lucky coupon holders, less exploitational Wassermanns were to be available daily at nearby clinics...
Romance in the Dark (Paramount) is like most other attempts to hitch the Hollywood wagon to a grand opera star. Its heroine is brunette, oval-faced Mezzo-Soprano Gladys Swarthout, prettiest and most adaptable of the cinema-minded opera singers. Most singing stars by this time walk blindfolded through the story of the girl who has to submit to subterfuge, disguise and heartache to get her chance. Miss Swarthout's version of this old story is pleasantly ingenuous. But with aging John Barrymore pitting his serrated profile against John Boles's open-mouthed full face in a battle...