Word: grandes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...officials of the Danish Foreign Office and I, the U.S. charge d'affaires. The game, with cutting in and out, was auction, but with one new major scoring wrinkle: if you chose to jeopardize what seemed like a sure game by bidding a small slam or a grand slam, the reward, as now, was 500 points for a small slam and 1,000 for grand slam...
...Where as in your case the big hand gets set by a freak distribution, in this case the big assortment not only does not get to play the hand, but the opposition (East and West) makes a grand slam against him -and it cannot be stopped or beaten...
...last week the business practices of the Waldorf's Philippe landed him squarely in the saucepan. Handed down by a federal grand jury in New York City: a five-count indictment, four counts charging Philippe with evading a whopping $88,706 in income taxes in the years 1952-55, one charging that he knowingly concealed the receipt of "cash, currency or kickbacks" from Waldorf suppliers. Sunk in a continental sulk, Philippe issued a printed declaration of probity ("At the trial I confidently expect to establish my innocence "), then left for his $500,000 country estate near Peekskill-there...
...year, the 40 million-franc Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe. Men in morning coats and grey cravats walked amid the drift of chestnut leaves with elegant women in Balenciaga and Dior gowns and outsize souffle hats. A few miles across town in the cavernous glass-roofed Grand Palais, thousands of other Frenchmen thronged the annual Salon de l'Auto to stare with passionate absorption at the chromium flash and gadgets of the 1959 model cars. These people, the acquisitive bourgeois society described so memorably by Balzac, were the true victors of the referendum. France had voted conservative...
...ridge part way up South Mountain, and, architecturally, looks very much like a typical British dominion parliament building. Inside, long corridor lounges and spacious well-appointed dining rooms give Packer's basically functional layout a whiff of atmosphere not unlike that of a Parisian hotel built in the grand old manner...