Word: granded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Three thousand men & women in evening dress were sitting at tables on the great floor (at $15 a plate). Among them were virtually all the ranking officers of the Administration and all shades of local politicos, including Democratic Boss Charlie Binaggio, who had just been subpoenaed by a federal grand jury to tell what he knew about the revival of racketeering in Kansas City. Six thousand non-diners watched and applauded from the flag-bedecked balconies. An army of harried waiters served 3,000 tenderloin steaks without allowing more than minor peripheral cooling to set in-no mean achievement since...
...grand finale will of course, be the selection by CRIMSON editors of Miss Radcliffe, Class of 1953, who will got fame, enough dates for four years of college, modeling opportunities, and her picture in the CRIMSON...
...pennant-bound St. Louis Cardinals made it tough for themselves by succumbing to the lowly Pittsburgh Pirate, 6 to 4, last night, maintaining a one game lead over the idle Brooklyn Dodgers. Rookie Saffell's grand slam homer in the second eliminated starter Red Munger. Bill Werle gave the Cards, eight hits, going...
...division hanged himself. A water-department official slashed his wrists with a razor blade (he had been taking bribes for jamming the mechanism of city meters and handing out free water to those who paid off). One official was cited for impeachment and 16 were indicted by a grand jury...
...excited last week that he thought he heard voices. Wrote Grieve: "When Mayor Elmer G. Robinson turned on the floodlights ... a huge gasp escaped from the throng and it rolled upward like escaped steam from a huge boiler. It was then-unanimously-that the crowd mumbled: 'This is grand. This is what we need and want...