Word: granded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...people who attended the opening of the first postwar National Motor Boat Show in Manhattan last week hoped to be dazzled by sleek new dreamboats. But what they saw amid the pillars of the Grand Central Palace looked very much like the models they had seen there in 1940, at the last show. Those who looked sharp, however, could find some improvements and a few new models...
Harland B. Newton, taking charge of defense, declined comment on his intentions, but said that if his client went nolo contendere in the proceedings, the case would go directly to the Federal Grand Jury for speedy indictment...
...human race has never been more vulnerable to high-flying generalities. At Princeton last week, J. B. S. Haldane, 54, Britain's grand not-very-old man of biology and vicinity, let loose some scary ones before a learned symposium on genetics, paleontology and evolution. Some of them...
...Grand opera, like port wine, is a commodity the English are in the habit of importing. No Englishman has ever written a successful opera, though young Benjamin Britten's may one day make the grade, (TIME, Aug. 19). Even good English opera singers are rare. London has long been without a topnotch opera company...
...Composer Henry Purcell and an anonymous playwright dashed off a travesty on Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. Its original seven hours now whittled down to three, The Fairy Queen was a lavish, confusing show full of dancers, coloratura arias, drunken comics and a Chinese grand finale. To put it on, Covent Garden had to call in its Sadler's Wells Co. and eight professional actors...