Word: grand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...present this basic duality is enormously compounded by the decimation of the department's staff over the past year and a half. Nearly half of the permanent faculty members were lost death and retirement. The retirement of Archibald T. "Dee" Davison, '06, the grand old man of the department, was followed in quick succession by the deaths of Professors Stephen D. Tuttle and Otto J. Gombosi. Then, during the past term, Assistant Professor Alan D. Sapp has been sidelined by illness. All this has been resulted in the dropping of several courses in an already none too large offering, substituting...
...HANDSOME Westchester matron, chic in a Hattie Carnegie dress and fragrant with Patou's Moment Suprême, passed TIME Editor James C. Keogh in New York's Grand Central Terminal, humming: "Da-vy, Davy Crockett, King of the wild frontier!" In Beverly Hills, startled Furrier Al Teitelbaum told TIME Correspondent Ezra Goodman that a movie matron had handed him a mink stole and ordered it cut into "coonskin" caps for her two sons...
...lightweight one-acter with few characters (although it may have a chorus, since singers are plentiful on campuses) and a small orchestra. Its plot is likely to be a fantasy with more moral than melodrama; one act is too short, and young artists are not best suited for grand passion. Its music stems from the German style, i.e., continuous, more or less expressive singing, rather than from the Italian fashion with its separate, show-stopping arias. The voice parts, in their way, are likely to resemble instrumental parts, as they did in the golden age of Italian-style vocalism...
Interviewed on CBS's Person to Person, grand old (75) Actress Ethel Barrymore, whose autobiography, Memories, is a bestseller, dredged up an offbeat memory of Calvin Coolidge, shed possible light on why Silent Cal customarily displayed all the spontaneous gaiety of a Vermont blizzard. Leaving the White House after a unilateral chat with Coolidge, Actress Barrymore, in stitches from laughter, was confronted by perplexed newsmen wondering what was so funny. Recalled Ethel: "And I said. 'Something the President just said.' And they all fell flat on their faces ... He really had made me laugh very, very much...
...large, wedge-shaped case. Each case contained an evening dress, coat, shoes and a makeup case besides its usual contents, a harp. All told, there were 50 girls and women, aged 14-40, and four men, who had come for three days of gossip, shoptalk, practice and, finally, a grand, massed harp concert...