Word: granded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...evil. I hope you won't soon be imploring us to fight China. That seems to be the way we do it nowadays. I suppose now Japan is suddenly getting good again. Finland was once just tops in American eyes, now in the depths. Is Argentina now grand again, or are we still supposed to hate her? I just can't keep track of whom we are supposed to hate...
...nation's Rotarians and Grand Commanders sweated through the first oratorical field day in five years, the choicest paeans were reserved for the newly-created Philippine Republic and the American colonial policy that sanctioned its independence. But as Washington lays down the white man's burden, and as Congress examines our colonial past in the light of its new halo, this same body might do well to review the legislation that has put the Roxas government on its own. This legislation might throw a sudden chill into Filipinos warmed with the first taste of self-rule. For the Bell Bill...
They listened approvingly to experts on everything. Indefatigable Harold Stassen* was there to talk about world cooperation. Fiery Fiorello LaGuardia made a moving plea for UNRRA. Physicist Harold C. Urey and Major General Leslie Groves, Grand Panjandrum of atomic energy, explained nuclear fission...
...dabbled only briefly in politics. Once he served two terms as Democratic county prosecutor. Once he switched party lines, but was beaten as a Republican. It wasn't until he was appointed special prosecutor in 1943 for a graft-hunting grand jury that he attracted attention by convicting 41 small-time politicians and racketeers. Suddenly, three months ago, he was fired, ostensibly for excessive expenditures, but just as he was sighting in on bigger political game...
...rade. All the solemnity, the boisterousness, the pride and the sentimentality were wrapped up together in the weekend's grand "P-rade." Two miles of sign-swinging Princeton men, paced by 32 military bands, wound in & out of the campus to University Field. At their head was orange-bereted Marshal Melville Dickenson, portlier now than when he captained Princeton's undefeated 1922 football team. Round University Field the alumni marched in review-past President Harold Dodds and a handful of pre-1896 Tigers (their joints no longer limber enough for P-rading.) Then everybody sang Old Nassau...