Word: granded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Winter's first major assault, a vast cold air mass from the Arctic, swept across the nation this week. Florida felt the chill fringes of it. In Grand Forks, N. Dak., the temperature dropped to 17° below zero. Around the stark deserted tipples of the coal mines from West Virginia to southern Illinois, a northwest wind whooped. John L. Lewis had a new ally...
Congress will be cager to do something about reducing labor-management friction, and the economic philisophy of the Grand Old Party makes it likely that whatever action is taken will consist of squashing labor's freedom of decision by Congressional fiat. The chance that such action will be blocked by Executive veto is lessened by President Truman's propensity for wielding a bludgeon in labor disputes. He and his advisers lack the time and tact to handle the labor question diplomatically and will be only too happy to be handed an even bigger club...
...Babylon" is his first play, and at a rather ripe old age, Gerhardi is witnessing Jed Harris' production of the work, plans for a New York showing next season, a fat check from paramount Pictures for the screen rights to the vehicle, and, of course, the Veterans Theater's grand opening at Rindge Tech auditorium...
...They attend the world's largest collegiate Bible class (with choir and orchestra). The college has a $75,000 riding arena, with 45 horses, and an aviation program with 30 planes. A faculty committee on "education by travel" is now planning a revival of the well-publicized continental grand tours Stephens girls took before...
Author Romains once explained that the grand strategy of Men of Good Will was to "reflect a whole generation." That it does, as faithfully, as arbitrarily and almost as indiscriminately as a mirror set up in a public square. The Seventh of October takes its title from the last day in Romains' logbook, in Paris in 1933. Citizens yawn, rise, go to work. A girl visits her lover. An Englishman blushingly discusses sex. A priest talks about politics. Poincaré is ill, the U.S. debt is unpaid, Hitler is kicking up a row in Germany, and 25 years...