Word: grandest
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Died. Jacobo Maria del Pilar Carlos Manuel Stuart Fitz-James y Falco, 74, 17th Duke of Alba de Tormes, Spain's wartime ambassador to the Court of St. James's; after long illness; in Lausanne, Switzerland. Grandest of Spain's grandees, he owned castles in almost every major city, had some 65 titles, including that of Duke of Berwick (a Stuart title not recognized by Britain). When civil war broke out in 1936, the Anglophile Duke sought to swing Britain to Franco's cause. After World War II, he disputed Franco's right to rule...
...like a shadow. She has contacted me at home or at the Washington Athletic Club. Once she paged me in a movie, told the manager that it was an important wire from New York and that TIME was holding the presses-a fabrication on the grandest level...
...Grandest Way." It was, as one barnacled and admiring city hall politico put it, "the grandest way to skip town I ever heard of." When Bill arrived at the embassy at Mexico City with his pretty new wife and helpmate, Sloan, he acted as if nothing had happened at all, at all, and soon had Mexicans of all classes eating out of his hand. Mexico's President Miguel Aleutian, a broad-minded politician, found him a congenial soul. Thousands of other Mexicans were flattered to find that O'Dwyer spoke Spanish (learned as a youth when he studied...
Earl cited the pledge of allegiance to the flag, and wondered why people should be "emotionally aroused about what I thought was one of the grandest privileges I ever...
...hundred and fifty years can still be a first rate show. To he sure, the unwieldy plot had to be cut down into manageable length, by eliminating a few descents into the lower world, demons, and so on; but the spirit of stateliness, poise, and pageantry in the grandest manner of Louis XIV's court was admirably preserved. With very simple staging, a feeling of magnificant display was achieved by fanfares, processions, and some excellent choreography by Adele Hooper Huge which managed to combine both sprightliness and grace...