Word: granded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ferde Grofe: Grand Canyon Suite (DM 1038) is a highly superficial programistic piece depicting various views of the Grand Canyon such as "Sunrise" complete with twittering flute. Of the three recordings of this work, the new one by Toscanini and the NBC surpasses both the older Whiteman and Kostelanetz performances in technical proficiency, but, like so many Toscanini readings of modern American music, lacks the sympathetic treatment provided by Whiteman. Recording is fair...
Midway in the proceedings the President left his seat in the grand ballroom, led a noisy, serpentine parade through the outer rooms where the party's lesser fry were seated. Then, after the whole crowd had jostled into the ballroom, he listened as speakers flayed the Republicans, praised Jefferson, Jackson, Wilson, F.D.R., the common man and themselves...
Gone was the grand manner and blue & gold magnificence of San Francisco and London. The delegates sat round a curved committee table in a light-paneled room that had been a basketball court two weeks before. Before the 51-minute opening session was half over, Andrei Gromyko was reading the paper. He looked up startled when the audience laughed at a high-flown French reference to le President du Bronx...
...Wife Ruth Piper Hollingsworth Foran Chatfield Pardo (four husbands) were sued in Manhattan by Hattie Carnegie Inc. for unpaid bills Wife Ruth had run up between the separation and divorce. A few items: a mink coat, $6,050; an ermine hat, $110; three nightgowns, $240; two beaded bags, $302.50. Grand total...
...current-grand total of 6,828 students in the University, 3,981 are veterans. Enrollment in the College alone, now 2,507, may exceed 4,500 by fall, which will bring the grand total of the University far above the record enrollment...