Word: granded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Connie Mack's bushy-browed face rises like an ostrich's out of a high stiff collar. He could retire tomorrow as baseball's Grand Old Man, but prefers to remain an active and highly controversial figure. Four-fifths of Philadelphia fans insist that he is the greatest manager in baseball; some of the remaining fifth contend that he is a penny-pinching old Scrooge who trades shamelessly on the incorrigible loyalty of Athletics fans. His detractors say that he profitably broke up his great teams of 1910-14 and 1929-32 because Philadelphia fans, with only...
...committees to study Europe's needs and resources under the "Marshall approach" got down to work this week in the Grand Palais, one of the few really ugly buildings in the center of Paris. They shared the vast, rambling premises with an international exhibition on town planning and an exhibition on popular science. Despite border guards, town planners and scientists now & then strayed into the domains of the diplomats. Guillaume Schneiter, a frail sexagenarian who described himself as a professional inventor, was one of the trespassers. Hugging a pile of documents, he appeared in the delegates' improvised...
...distinguishing hues, to run races in a specially designed treadmill. "I just put 'em on the wheel and poke 'em," he said. "They get the idea pretty fast." In France, Britain's pigeon fanciers let loose some 4,000 prize birds in the France-to-England Grand National and Northeast Lancashire classics. Only 50% of the birds returned to England, but pigeon racers are philosophical about their hobby. What with the heat and bad flying weather, they admit, many a pigeon just hasn't the guts to stay the distance. Others meet French lady friends...
With the first appearance (1938) of her column in the Los Angeles Times, Hedda was made. In 1940 she switched from Esquire to the Des Moines Register & Tribune syndicate; in 1942, she pulled off her grand coup of wooing & winning syndicating contracts from the New York Daily News's Joe Patterson and the Chicago Tribune's Bertie McCormick. On that day, June 1, Lolly Parsons arched her back but moved over on the fence. Hedda had become a major Hollywood gossip...
...restful to putt, when the strains of a band Announced a thé dansant was on at the Grand.... How lightly municipal, meltingly tarr'd Were the walks through the Lawns by the Queen's Promenade...