Word: granded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were suspended; one was held for the grand jury. A day later one of the six dropped dead of a heart attack. In eight years, it was estimated, the boys had made off with anywhere from...
...Grand Tour was under way again-that great annual pilgrimage which almost since the Revolution has led Americans back to Europe at the command of fashion, war or undefined nostalgia. Well over 200,000 Americans were expected to go to Europe this summer, nearly on a par with the best prewar years, and as many as the reduced Atlantic fleet could carry. Ships of all sizes and registries were booked to capacity, and on the vastly expanded airlines space was going fast. Europe feverishly offered up its beauties in exchange for dollars, announced special rations to keep well-fed Americans...
Meanwhile further cuts in the Imperial Household budget seemed likely, and Premier Hitoshi Ashida put the boot to some of Hirohito's old-guard retainers, who still wore striped pants and cutaways, still called the Emperor O-kami (Honorable God). Imperial Grand Steward Yoshitami Matsudaira, a palace henchman for 37 years, resigned and "moved across the moat...
...Nature Grand. The New York Herald Tribune printed a folksy bit of home-town news: "New York City was favored last night with a sunset that rivaled those of the tropics in its splendor . . . Pedestrians in midtown cross streets stopped to watch and remark to each other on its beauty. There were not only cloud strata tinted from brilliant orange to deep mauve, but there were streaks of vivid blue sky and a vertical path of vivid color that resembled the reddish-white color of an open-hearth steel furnace...
...grand finale, a life & death chase staged in a War Surplus warehouse, is full of the ingenious low-comedy ideas which practically nobody seems to be able to think up these days. The desperate obstacle race takes place among instantly inflating life rafts, stockpiles of prefabricated barracks, bouncy camouflage nets, a regular holocaust of naval flares. It's good, fast, noisy fun; but the good comic ideas are never really milked of their possibilities as they used to be by Chaplin and Keaton and Lloyd...