Word: granded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sense of power and glory that was Britain and might be Britain still is not in these men. They seem too humble even for middleclass, easygoing Scarborough, and much too modest for its Grand Hotel. Yet these modest men indubitably believe themselves the architects of a greater Britain, followers of a loftier vision than Pitt or Disraeli or Churchill...
...National Council of the Boy Scouts of America. The banqueters were entertained by a group of high-school singers, who for half an hour sang popular songs, all of them by Songwriter Jerome Kern. At a Manhattan Scout-o-Rama, the Cubs honored Margaret Truman with their "Grand Howl." Replied Margaret...
With princely fervor, Igor ordered high-powered cars, formed a racing club, trained all winter. The bill came to 60 million francs (about $200,000). Last week he lined up for Monte Carlo's International Grand Prix, first since...
...Grand Prix is no Sunday drive. The tortuous 198-mile course zigzags through narrow city streets, swoops uphill & down. In the 1937 race, a Frenchman drove over a cliff into the sea, and one Italian ended Up with his radiator embedded in the ticket office of Monte Carlo's railroad station. Last week, after 50 laps (halfway), eleven of the 19 cars in the race had quit. But Igor, gripping the wheel of his No. 36, a crimson Ferrari, was still in the running. Then it happened...
This is the setting that Jean Malaquais has chosen for his huge and exciting novel about "shamed and sunken France." World Without Visa is a novel on the grand scale, packed with enough action to fill a dozen less ambitious books, bursting with dramatic and melodramatic climaxes, written and overwritten from a gnawing sense of social urgency - a desperate, ear-splitting wail of grief at what human life has become in the 20th Century. Niggling critics will find many faults in it, and the faults are there; but it is nonetheless a book that communicates, as no other...