Word: granded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Grand Inquisitor. James Boswell was a drunkard, a tomcat, a toady, a conceited ass and at times a consummate nuisance; but he produced almost as great a book as Gibbon's, and thanks to his inveterate good nature and high spirits, probably had more real friends. Some of his biographers have been unable to get past Boswell's faults and a few have tried to argue them away, but Mr. Quennell has done the pudgy Scot exact justice. He has seen-but also seen past-the clown who strutted about the Shakespeare Jubilee in Corsican fancy dress...
...effort." In The Last Tycoon he made a last, powerful effort both to create an objective character and to explain his own dilemma - that of a man torn between the "moneyed celebrity" of Hollywood and his ambition to do honest work. He had developed, says Dos Passos, "a real, grand style," and had reached "a firmly anchored ethical standard . . . something that American writing has been struggling towards for half a century." But, halfway through The Last Tycoon, Fitzgerald died of a heart ailment...
...theater, the cast never missed a performance. "There were plenty of times when we were ready to chuck it," one young actress admitted, "but what could we do when Dame Lilian kept going on?" Dame Lilian Braithwaite, Arsenic's Abby Brewster and the English stage's Grand Old Lady, can be more frightening than bombs. A clergyman's daughter who has triumphantly passed almost 50 of her 70-odd years in the theater, she looks like anybody's sweet old grandmother. But she combines plenty of arsenic with her old lace...
Divorced. David Field Beatty, 2nd Earl Beatty, 40, Navy Commander, eldest son of Britain's late World War I Grand Fleet commander, grandson of Chicago's late Merchant Marshall Field; by Countess Beatty, Virginia-born, thrice-married Dorothy Power Hall Sands Beatty, 42; after eight years of marriage (no children); in London. Grounds: adultery...
...Koch and Elliot Paul with simplicity and reasonable fidelity. Newcomer Robert Alda looks enough like Gershwin and, with the aid of some astute photography, fakes his piano playing skilfully enough to be convincing in the cacophony of Remick's, a music publishing company, and impressive at a concert grand in Manhattan's Aeolian Hall...