Word: granded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This Grand Old U.S.A." Daylight came in the windows of the four Pullmans. The train joggled on. The boys poured each other some eye-openers and the stories began again and grew more wonderful...
...about formal clothes. Morris said: "Captain Truman told us that we could go anywhere so long as we wore shoes." They practiced a parody of Tipperary to sing to Captain Truman: "Up from Jackson County came a county judge one day. He worked into the White House of this grand old U.S.A...
...Whitney Museum last week smiled patronizingly at what he saw. On the walls were more than a hundred paintings and drawings by an almost forgotten U.S. landscapist named Thomas Cole. His worst pictures were vast neo-classical allegories done after he had become famous and made the Grand Tour of Europe. His best were meticulous and tender souvenirs of walking trips through the Catskills, the White Mountains and the old Northwest Territory, sometimes embellished with a log cabin, a lone hunter, or a circle of Indian braves. Under their tobacco-brown varnish, the paintings shone with light and space; they...
...only prominent churchman not on hand was the one man chiefly responsible for bringing the unification about-Lutheran Bishop Theophil Wurm of Württemberg. The white-bearded grand old man of German Protestantism, who turned 80 last month, was too ill to attend...
...nights this week, trains of snorting vans lumbered up to Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel and disgorged rich cargoes from Detroit. Inside the hotel, swarms of workmen sweated under floodlights to turn the Grand Ballroom into the fanciest automobile showroom on earth. On a wide stage, they set up an endless chain conveyor and a revolving platform for the new models; across the room, they reared a 25-ft. pylon above a cluster of jewel-bright auto engines...