Word: granded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although some 41,000 new items were added to the library during the last fiscal year, experts see no danger of crowding. The library, probably because of its Grand Central Station-like construction, still has ample room for its 175 employees, ranging from the head librarian to the blonde in the archives, and for a steady stream of scholars...
Many of the delegates were novice diplomats who were shy and nervous at the opening session. But a few were veterans who remembered the grand old days of '19, when they were gay, 'young third secretaries, and Paris was still Paris. Then Maxim's had still been open, and young Maurice Chevalier sang Madelon. Now they, like Chevalier, were getting old; there were no songs to replace the triumphant bugles of Madelon or the drums that rolled through Tipperary...
Charles de Gaulle did a little horsepower trading. For his 1942 33-h.p. Cadillac, a gift from Dwight Eisenhower, a dealer gave him "something less imposing": 1) a 16-h.p. Delahaye, which le grand Charlie handed over to a relief agency; 2) a 13-h.p. Hotchkiss for Mme. de Gaulle; 3) an n-h.p. Citroen for himself...
Although the Classic has always been a jinx for champion three-year-olds (it was for Whirlaway, Johnstown, Bimelech and Twenty Grand) the finally convinced bettors made Assault a 7-to-10 favorite for last week's 18th running of the mile-and-a-quarter stakes. The only real point to the race seemed to be whether he was a great horse, or only a good one in a bad year. Assault's Trainer Max Hirsch wondered whether the other horses were good enough to give Assault a race...
Bjartur of Summerhouses is the central figure in Independent People. This grim, graphic novel of life on the Icelandic uplands, circa 1900-1920, is the Book-of-the-Month Club's choice for August and, according to the publisher, an "epic in the grand tradition of great fiction." It may be less expansively described as a half-sympathetic, half-scornful portrait of the Icelandic peasant mind, done with broad "epic" touches and special political intent. For Author Halldór Laxness uses his fine portrait, which is drawn in almost Holbein-like detail, as the text...