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...right by the memory of Marse Robert. After all, he was the greatest and grandest officer the United States Army ever produced...
Billy's column takes the broad view. One day he may deliver a cheap-seats catcall at international politicos; the next he may tool up an ancient vaudeville wheeze into a brisk short short. A sample of his grandest manner: "Even if we told them how, I don't think the Russians could make the atom bomb. . . . I gather it takes more than a cyclotron, some chemists, and a boy to run out for coffee. I don't think the Soviets have what it takes. . . . How come they haven't been able to turn...
...Manhattan who saw Olivier as Oedipus last spring knew that he had most of the makings and many of the accomplishments of a great tragic actor. Yet it was still possible to wonder whether he had quite the size of soul and voice and presence to wring the grandest roles dry. If London's generally reliable critics were to be trusted, such doubts were no longer possible. Seldom in a decade has the London Times talked like this...
...Naturally I'm going to fix things the way I like, but all in all I think it's wonderful. . . . I guess the biggest surprise was the plumbing. I always thought continental plumbing wasn't up to our standards. But we've got the grandest tile bathrooms in this house -three of them-one on each floor...
...that time Dr. Douglas Hyde ("make way there, yous, keep back, keep back, give him space there") was a famous, fine man. Playwright Sean O'Casey, now 65, remembers that Dublin gawked and said wasn't Hyde the grandest champion the glorious Irish language had ever known, although to be sure he hardly spoke a word of it himself. Indeed, a famous man, a "sure sage, with almost all the priests applaudin' "; and him a Protestant, too ("make way, there-silence-"). And standing nearby was Jim Connolly, "the renowned Socialist leadher," author of Socialism Made Easy...