Word: granded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most Nürnbergers were simply concerned with finding food and shelter and warmth in the soggy, smelly ruins of their city. Enviously they looked at the Grand Hotel (requisitioned for the trial staff) which was well heated, served plenty of food on fabulously clean linen, and had a bar, dancing, and a floor show...
Died. Charles Coborn, 93, grand old man of British music halls, who wrote and popularized songs (most famed: The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo-); in London...
Many a thoughtful Protestant will agree with John Raleigh Mott, octogenarian Y.M.C.A. leader, that "entirely too many resolutions are being passed by churches [and] denominational bodies." The grand old man of foreign missions is quoted in the Protestant Voice: "This is a colossal escape mechanism. I have on file now 115 sets of elaborate resolutions. Certain bodies meet, deliberate, announce that they have come to such-and-such a conclusion, then they sit back on their oars and do nothing more. What we need is enlightened, imaginative and even revolutionary leadership in religion today...
...grand Charlie had doffed his uniform and his general's stars, donned dark blue mufti and become simple M. de Gaulle. Having resigned as Provisional President, he retired from his offices on the rue Saint Dominique to a villa in suburban Neuilly. There he waited for the new Constituent Assembly to call him back to duty...
...movie has an eyewitness ring, and it elevates one small aspect of the war to a parable of the whole. In working with untrained actors and an untamed landscape, veteran Swiss Producer Lazar Wechsler kept his story skillfully simple, his camera work properly unsophisticated. The result is no Grand Illusion (TIME, Sept. 26, 1938), but it is an earnest and unassuming film which will be remembered...