Word: grand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...coincidence Federal District Judge Luther Youngdahl last week dismissed two indictments charging Casey with conspiring to defraud the Government in surplus-ship sales to Greek shippers. Casey had won immunity by telling a federal grand jury about the transactions...
...Agamemnon's captain and first officer moved into second-class quarters to make room for the Greek King and Queen. The Grand Duchess of Luxembourg parked her duds in the chief engineer's bunk. Ex-King Michael of Rumania and his honey-haired wife Anne were berthed in a double stateroom...
...Matheson was the most successful handicapper in the country: a two-dollar ticket on each of his "best bets" (his top choice at every track on every day of racing) would have earned a grand total of $44.10 by year's end. The sum looked hardly impressive, but it was better than any other handicapper's record. It convinced Matheson that if a man in vested in only the best of the Matheson "best bets," he might earn a living...
...Fourth R. Sunday morning, naturally enough, is devotional. In the earlier hours, radio religion ranges from the evangelical thunder of Pasadena's Rev. Herbert Armstrong ("Catastrophic happenings will soon shake the world!") to the fundamentalist tenets of Grand Rapids' Dr. Richard De Haan ("Read the Bible closely and never out of context . . ."). Television's religious note is more often interdenominational and inspirational. This week Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (The Power of Positive Thinking) and his wife devoted 30 filmed minutes (CBS) to assuring viewers that an inferiority complex should not prevent financial success. The Peales told...
...Lauder. Hubert Gregg makes a sopping good Milquetoast as Douglas' male secretary, who is haplessly stationed aboard the Maggie to see that the boss's orders are carried out. And the bonny little fiend of a cabin boy, Tommy Kearins, with his soup-bowl haircut and that grand commercial light in his eye, is every dirty inch the Huck Finn of the Hebrides...