Word: grand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...politician who steals," said G. W. Plunkitt, "is worse than a thief. He is a fool. With the grand opportunities all around for a man with political pull, there's no excuse for stealin' a cent...
After eight years in power, Tweed finally fell-and fell hard. His reign was exposed, and he was eventually sentenced to a year in jail for forgery, grand larceny and conspiracy. Later, a $6,000,000 civil judgment was returned against him. When asked his occupation for the jail records, Tweed replied: "Statesman." With official connivance, Tweed escaped from the Ludlow Street Jail and fled to Spain, where authorities recognized him from a Thomas Nast cartoon and arrested him as the kidnaper of two American children. Reason: the cartoon had shown Tweed clutching two symbolic ragamuffins. Tweed was returned...
...Sunday morning a musical press-agent and thwarted opera singer named Alix Williamson was indulging her favorite whim: lolling in her bathtub, lazily singing arias from grand opera. Perhaps because she was singing out of tune, she began to concentrate on the words. How silly they could sound in English, she thought. As pressagents will, she began to turn her meditations to some useful end. Result: a series of double-meaning cartoons, in the manner of "Fractured French," providing the latest spoof of a much-spoofed medium...
...clients have included Gladys Swarthout, Ezio Pinza, Helen Traubel) persuaded Austrian-born Artist Susan Perl to put her ideas on paper, found a California manufacturer to print the cartoons on a set of "sip 'n snack" paper napkins. Price: $1 for 36 napkins. Caro name of the series: Grand Uproar...
...Grand chistera, played by three-man teams with extra-long chisteras. This is the fastest and most spectacular variety, the favorite of the pros...