Word: granded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That was about all there was to say, except to ask that a special grand jury be called to investigate the killing. Judge Clyde H. Brown, McMath's close friend and law partner, who had run and won with him in last November's election, said he would do that...
Buffeted by Storms. Mozart wrote Idomeneo when he was 24. He was already a mature and original symphonist, but as an opera composer he was still leaning on the past. He fashioned Idomeneo after the Alceste and Iphigenie en Aulide of Gluck, the grandfather of grand opera. Gluck had tried to pump some life into the stodgy, formalized opera seria which had degenerated into stiff, static pieces in which singers could show off their voices...
...areas," said Barber Bert Oakley, "my new shop would scare the trade away." But not in fashionable Westwood, a Cadillac's spurt away from Hollywood. With searchlights, clouds of soap bubbles, and a few cinemactor customers (Allan Jones and Pat O'Brien) to give it atmosphere, the grand opening of "the world's swankiest tonsorial parlor" last week drew thousands of spectators...
...Long Night is an ambitious movie, with some glaring faults. Much of it is too loud, too sentimental, too insistent on giving grand-scale social meaning to an essentially personal story. Although the acting is unusually sincere, Vincent Price is too florid even for his florid role; Henry Fonda often counts too much on a sort of adenoidal pathos; Ann Dvorak is not very convincing as the other woman; and only Barbara Bel Geddes, making her screen debut, is really satisfactory...
Adams has now lighting in the library and a new music room in B entry basement. Only Leverett has a tennis court along with its music room in A-11. Dunster House bought a grand piano for its instrument rooms in A entry and fixed the Old Dutch clock...