Word: grandest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Edmund Gros. head of the American Hospital, hurried downstairs to where a group of reporters huddled in the half-light. He said: "The grandest lady of France and America died with a suffragist smile. There were no last words." Thus last week died Alva Smith Vanderbilt Belmont, of bronchitis and heart disease, having lain ill since a paralytic stroke last...
Most sports have one or more Grand Old Men. Harness racing has dozens who jounce their old bones in old bright -varnished sulkies on Grand Circuit trotting tracks every summer. Grandest old man of trotting, until he died eight years ago, was Edward Franklin ("Pop'') Geers of Lebanon, Tenn., who won nearly $2,000,000 in prizes. Two more grand old men of trotting distinguished themselves last week, one in Ohio and one in New York, at Goshen where the Grand Circuit reached its peak in the Hambletonian Stakes, one-mile race named for the greatest...
...movement of the universe as a whole. . . . Perhaps we may even say that at the Present epoch there is no other globe where life is at the level manifested on earth. ... I suggest that at the present cosmic epoch we are the spectators of what is perhaps the grandest event in the. immeasurable history of our universe...
...grandest spectacles ever witnessed is to take place in the air; papers will round out a week of sweeping headlines, as the aetherial swarm completes its tour of the middle and Eastern United States. Few can realize the tremendous details of organization; even less will consider that this grand stunt is costing millions of the taxpayers' dollars, in a time of greatest depression...
...studied law, became a solicitor's clerk, then an editor of Woman (weekly). He free-lanced for many a journal until his literary output brought him riches, made him one of Britain's four wealthiest writers (the others are Shaw, Barrie, Wells). Thereafter he lived in Europe's grandest hotels, bought himself a yacht, moved in and wrote of high society. But his greatest works were the earlier simple, realistic chronicles of his native Staffordshire: the "Five Towns" novels...