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Word: grandest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...theatres out of small stores and offices at nominal cost. All Trans-Lux theatres will have big comfortable chairs, rows far enough apart for patrons to sit with their legs crossed. They will be too well lighted for the operations of leg-pinchers and knee-rubbers, who make the grandest cinema palaces their playground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Trans-Lux | 3/23/1931 | See Source »

Fine & Dandy. With due regard for the quality of Comedian Joe Cook's past performances, it may be safely said that Fine & Dandy is his grandest, maddest exhibition to date. Always a good hand at mechanical contraptions, this year he has placed himself in ideal surroundings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 6, 1930 | 10/6/1930 | See Source »

Many of the old Capone friends and enemies would be absent when "The Big Fellow" returned to town. He might have seen them had he been released from jail a week earlier, for they were on hand (by special permission of the police) for gangland's latest, grandest funeral, that of John ("Dingbat") Oberta. Joe Saltis, retired beer chief, came down from his place at Saltisville, Wis.., to brag of the $100,000 he had invested there in a nine-hole golf course, a clubhouse "that sleeps 26 people." George ("Bugs") Moran, who lost seven of his north side hirelings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Coming Out Party | 3/24/1930 | See Source »

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