Word: granded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Truman had written the words & music. All the 81st Congress had to do was to follow his score. The Fair Deal Fiesta, a grand and expensively produced show, should have been swinging along tunefully, heading toward the grand finale, in which the Republicans in Congress were vanquished, the cast sang "hallelujah," and Mr. Truman, author, took his bows...
...heavy fur coat. She had needed it; the Moscow winter and the chill blast of the Kremlin deportation order were enough to freeze anyone. Her reception at La Guardia was chilly too: a gauntlet of 15 solemn New York cops, two FBI men who pinned her with a Federal Grand Jury subpoena, and a pack of 50 reporters. Why, the reporters wanted to know, had the Russians thrown her out after she had plugged passionately for the Red cause for some 30 of her 64 years...
...straightened it all out was smart, amiable August Scholle, 44, longtime president of the State C.I.O. Council, and one of Walter Reuther's close friends. His influence was soon felt. A committee of properly indoctrinated Democrats last week held a state convention at Grand Rapids...
Last fortnight Borculo's efforts in aid of Warren reached a grand climax in four separate variety shows. With admission fees and the oliebollen sale at intermissions, they grossed 2,200 gulden ($830), more than twice what the committee hoped for. Even that, Borculo admitted, would not help much financially, but already the villagers had a scheme in mind to spend it so that all the citizens of resurrected Warren might benefit. They would turn it to furniture for a public building. Cabinetmaker Groot Landeweer thought a sturdy oak chair carved with Borculo's coat of arms would...
Family Honeymoon (Universal-International) devotes itself strenuously to the leering old gag of setting up an obstacle course between the nuptial bed and a pair of ardent newly weds (Claudette Colbert and Fred MacMurray). Among the obstacles: the Other Woman (Rita Johnson), the rigors of a tour through the Grand Canyon, the constant company of the bride's three small children by a former marriage...