Word: granded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Because "certain irresponsible persons" were giving the Ku Klux Klan "bad publicity and censure" by wearing bedsheets and masks in the commission of their crimes, Grand Dragon Samuel Green, Atlanta obstetrician, last week issued an Imperial Edict: henceforth Klansmen must not wear masks "upon any street, road or highway in these United States...
...Pause That Refreshes), a fleet of 200 yellow trucks pound along ancient Roman routes from the bottling centers, and deliverymen dressed in uniforms emblazoned with Coca-Cola's red patch trundle boxes into caffe bars and wineshops. In Venice, two motor launches (see cut) chug along the Grand Canal on delivery routes...
After four years of Soviet captivity, shabby, 61-year-old Erika Raeder, wife of Nazi Grand Admiral Erich Raeder (now serving a life term for war crimes), turned up in Berlin and unburdened herself to newsmen. The enigmatic Russians had fed her caviar in Moscow, starved her in Minsk, kept her peeling potatoes in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. Then, just as unaccountably, they...
Like most retailers, the Grand Leader Store of South Bend, Ind. had been bucking a deep depression in appliance sales. One week in July it sold just six refrigerators. But the following week it sold...
Strindberg's fears and passions eventually found relief of sorts in the old, familiar sound of the church bells. He came to believe that each of his ordeals was merely a penance on his own road to Damascus. He went home, and became the Grand Old Man of Swedish letters. While he was dying of cancer of the stomach, he wanted to have his children near him. One evening, while his daughter Karin was at his bedside, he picked up the Bible and murmured: "Everything is atoned for." Soon afterwards, he died...