Word: grand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hold My Cigar." For the next three hours the Grand Ballroom and three adjoining rooms rocked to mambos, waltzes, and sambas. In the East Foyer, pretty matrons sold raffle tickets on a 1955 Plymouth and the ball took on a fine Christmas spirit. When a photographer approached to take his picture, Veteran Actor Charles Coburn turned to a debutante. "Here," he said, "hold my cigar." Then he twinkled at the camera through his monocle. By 3 a.m., nearly all the young folks had gone off to El Morocco or the Stork Club for some serious dancing, and the last fathers...
...lions of British letters, grand-mannered poetess Dame Edith (Façade) Sitwell, 67, and her ailing author brother Sir Osbert (Wreck at Tidesend) Sitwell, 62, ensconced in a Manhattan hotel for the Christmas holidays, reminisced about their past troubles with readers. Sir Osbert, who once listed his recreations as "listening to the sound of his own voice, not receiving letters and not answering them," recalled a frustrating incident on a train: "I saw a lady reading one of my books. Reaching across from my seat, I tapped the volume and told her, 'I am the author. Would...
David C. (for Curtis) Stephenson, 62, onetime Grand Dragon of Indiana's Ku Klux Klan, who used to regard the state as his own feudal barony, won his freedom from the state parole board. He had spent nearly three decades in prison, where he languished amidst delusions of persecution and grandeur, for committing one of the most sensational sadistic murders of the '20s. In 1925, he forced a state government clerk named Madge Oberholtzer to board a train with him and, while his bodyguards stood by, brutally ravished her in a lower berth. After they...
...actually worked for builders on the side, were wined and dined, given "girl parties," and outright bribes. Worst culprit: Assistant FHA Commissioner Clyde L. Powell, 58, boss of the rental-housing program since 1942, who is now serving a one-year jail sentence for refusing to answer a grand jury's questions. One architect said that he paid Powell a $10,000 bribe, and Powell's bank statements showed deposits of $218,330 between 1945 and 1954 while his Government income was only $8,265 during that period...
...April 1953 a Federal grand jury, spurred on by a St. Louis Post-Dispatch expose of labor racketeering, indicted Dale and Bateman and 13 other A.F.L...