Word: grandee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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In Nevada, an expedition from the Museum of the American Indian (Manhattan), called in by Governor James Graves Scrugham to examine the great cliff city (Pueblo Grande de Nevada) which he had discovered personally (TIME, March 23, 1925), threw up sand all winter over a stretch six miles long, baring...
When Basil Dean suggested that the theatre in England was in a less vigorous position than the American he had probably seen "The Young Person in Pink", For Gertrude Jennings' play, now in its first week at the Copley, is certainly insipid, if not devitalizingly vapid. Three acts of gentle...
The age of miracles is definitely past and with it has gone the prestige of the wonder worker. On the Mexican side of the Rio Grande, four Indians, doubtless bona fide medicine men of the ancient type, failed to cure a cross-eyed boy.
The reason is this: Recently Colonel Manuel Demetrio Torres, known as Chaparreras, was taken by U. S. officials in Laredo, Tex., and transferred across the Rio Grande to the Mexican authorities. He had fought with the Huertistas against Obregon and Calles. He was handed over to the Mexican Government, by...
At Brussels eager citizens peeped and peered from the windows of the ancient guild houses which still surround La Grande Place. Throngs of children and massed delegations representing Belgian societies filled the square, from the old Maison du Roi on one side, nearly to the Gothic arcade of the Hotel...