Word: granded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Musical numbers for the show, which director Achenhurst asserts is "shaping up well," include "I Blame It on the Section Man," "If You're Clever. You'll Never Visit Boston," "By the Subway in the Square," and as a grand finale number, "Jubilee...
...Grand Slam. In London, William Deven slammed his wife's bedroom door with such vigor that the three-story facade of the house fell off, crashed to the ground...
...markedly reserved. Communist L'Humanité demanded an Assembly debate to forbid Army officers to listen to De Gaulle. Worried about the increased danger of civil war, Socialist Premier Paul Ramadier paid a hasty visit to De Gaulle. In his white-walled villa, over black coffee, "le grand Charlie" tried to reassure Ramadier. "I am no Boulanger,"* De Gaulle said. Ramadier was taking no chances. The two men agreed that henceforth De Gaulle would be a split personality. At official functions De Gaulle, the hero and ex-Premier, would be nonpolitical. On other occasions he would say what...
...Winston Grill served cocktails from a bar hardly bigger than its baby-grand piano. The renovated Club Norman (once a servicemen's hangout and now Toronto's only real nightclub) had two bars: a Circus Room (striped awnings, murals that featured animals and weightlifters) and a Starlight Room (a synthetically starlit ceiling, oval bar, an imported floor show). Some 2,300 shoved into the club on opening night...
Died. Princess Louise of Saxony, 76, daughter of the last Grand Duke of Tuscany, onetime Habsburg Archduchess, whose romantic misadventures were a worldwide scandal 45 years ago; in Brussels...