Word: grand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...source of Offenbach's inspiration becomes his leading actress, Hortense Schneider. And Hortense, a broad minded girls, finds emperors and generals as attractive as composers, and inspiration fails Offenbach. He then writes an operetta satirizing the vagaries of wandering Hortense; and the operetta, La Belle Helene, is a grand success. Offenbach is content. Hortense is content. Paris is content...
...decorations, including the Distinguished Service Cross. ¶ Walter A. (for nothing) Haas, 66, the man who made denim work pants high fashion, moved up from president to board chairman of San Francisco's Levi Strauss & Co. Haas, a San Franciscan and University of California graduate, married a grand niece of Levi Strauss in 1914, entered the company, and became president in 1928. Levis were strictly work pants when Haas took over; he introduced "Levis for Ladies" in the 19303, hit the big time when bobby-soxers and college coeds adopted them as a uniform. Current sales: more than...
...days after Patrick B. McGinnis chided New Yorkers for "being satisfied to travel in the subways like pigs," homeward-bound commuters last week were packed like porkers into Grand Central Terminal (see cut), awaiting trains delayed more than two hours by a locomotive fire on McGinnis' New York, New Haven & Hartford Rail Road. The fire snarled 20 New Haven trains and 21 New York Central trains that use the same tracks into Grand Central. It was the latest and one of the longest New Haven delays since McGinnis won a heated proxy fight and took over the road...
...around to his killing finish; so he sends Palance off on a romantic goose chase after a farmer's daughter (Lori Nelson), who has a tendency to the same high-flown appreciation of CinemaScopic nature as Shelley. "My!" Lori trills. "Isn't the air grand out here on the desert? And look at those stars -aren't they beautiful?" It is small wonder that Palance goes berserk at the film's end and gets himself shot down by a battalion of police...
Maurice de Sully was a practical dreamer with a vision almost as striking as that of another French provincial, Joan of Arc. Though his chiefs of staff were two unknown master builders, the grand design of Notre-Dame as it stands today was largely his. He raised the money (the cathedral eventually cost the 1955 equivalent of $100 million); he met the payroll and disciplined the work force (some 1,000 masons, metal smiths, carpenters, etc.); he personally selected leading artists and chose the subjects of the complex iconography. And he took fresh architectural gambles. The ceiling of Notre-Dame...