Word: granded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...second floor, said Public Buildings Commissioner W. Englebert Reynolds, stays up only "by force of habit." Some of its beams carry ten times their normal stress. The marble grand staircase is in danger of collapse. The heavy (70 Ibs. to the square foot) frescoed ceiling of the East Room has a six-inch sag, had to be shored up with timbers to prevent its caving...
Like the woman herself, Tallulah's theatrical style is a little more brightly colored than life, in the grand manner that makes modern naturalism seem flat and bloodless. "The boldness of her ease upon the stage," Critic John Mason Brown once wrote, "is on occasion as uncomfortable to watch as it is to see a guest making himself too much at home in another person's house...
...formidable record for Ayrshires by producing 18,817 Ibs. of milk and 656 Ibs. of butterfat in a year. Two others, Cavalier's Swanky Gold and Cavalier's Swanky Design, would have been bull champions had it not been for Swanky Dan; when Swanky Dan won the Grand Championship at the Dairy Cattle Congress in Waterloo, Iowa last year, they followed him in second and third places. He won the Grand Championship again this year; two heifers he sired won the junior and junior-reserve championships...
This Thanksgiving, in tribute to a grand old institution, 20th Century Fox had handed movie audiences the biggest turkey of the season. "When My Baby Smiles At Me" is one of those unfortunate picture that sets out to give you an entertaining evening, but somehow winds up midway between boredom and gastritis...
...crowded combination living room-den where wife Gertrude's furniture is pushed aside to make room for a grand piano, a harmonium and an easel, Schoenberg works at manuscripts magnified for his weak eyes. Until six years ago, he played avid tennis: "Then, suddenly, no one wanted to play with me." He realizes that his opponents knew he shouldn't be playing: his asthma is so bad that when Who's Who asked him to list his recreations several years ago "I was tempted to say 'oxygen inhaling...