Word: granded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hungry man was ever turned away from the lavish free lunch. The pair staged an annual First Ward ball which was attended by thousands of whores, pickpockets, hopheads, politicians and pimps. Their guests drank free champagne, brawled, engaged in orgiastic dancing, and cheered as Bathhouse John led the Grand March wearing a bright green cutaway, mauve vest, lavender pants and a high silk...
...Glittering Notoriety. Yet he was no flop. Before he was 30 he had risen to the post of supply commissary in the Grand Army, and served as military governor of Brunswick in occupied Prussia (he took his pen name from the little German town of Stendal). He returned to France a member of "that hierarchy of five or six hundred top officials through whom the Empire was ruled...
...crowd roared Land of Hope and Glory, with Churchill hoarsely joining in. It was clear that the grand old man had given the party fresh spirit. But had he satisfied the party's "Young Turks"? If, indeed, the party did regain power, what was to be done about the nationalization already in effect? Said one young delegate: "We can't very well unscramble that omelet...
...Bonneville Power Administration, which represents Bonneville and Grand Coulee dams, is used to getting requests for power: its chief business is to sell it. But by this time it hasn't much to spare. Several months ago, a representative of NACA (National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics) asked for "a block of power." Bonneville inquired how much was wanted...
...Brave New World, Aldous Huxley created a repulsively antiseptic future world in which everything was done scientifically by push buttons and chemistry. Last week, as over 100,000 people trooped through Manhattan's Grand Central Palace at the National Business Show, first since 1941, it appeared that the pushbutton world had already closed in on businessmen...