Word: grandeur
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Governor Thomas E. Dewey hustled his family on board a train at Albany for a trip west. Ostensibly, the trip was a vacation to visit his wife's family in Sapulpa, Okla., his mother in Owosso, Mich, and to show his sons some of the grandeur of the West. Actually, as eleven reporters traveling with him knew, it was a chance to confer with dozens of G.O.P. national committeemen, make news at the Governors' Conference in Salt Lake City, and line up Dewey delegates for the Philadelphia convention next June. Tom Dewey at last...
...grass, waving their hands to and fro, or humming partly under their breath. Fielder left classic decorum to the academicians of music, and played with liveliness and humor that did justice to the intention of almost every one of these composers of light concert music. Only the sturdy grandeur of Sibelius' "Finlandia" suffered from the rendition...
...produced works better equilibrated. Copland's is the least ambitious expressively of the three pieces. It is modest and thin of substance. Hindemith's is more pretentious and more complex but not a whit more expressive. Malipicro's is the richest of them, matches most nearly with music the grandeur of its verbal text. It might seem even more adequately Virgilian than it does if, orchestral instruments were to be substituted in the accompaniment for the pipe-organ, a graceless and lumbering instrument...
Monday afternoon's tantalizing headlines both raised delicious visions of the new order at Harvard College and created the less attractive possibility that John Harvard might find himself sharing his solitary grandeur with a bronze tribute to Carrie Nation or Dean Gildersleeve. But apoplectic University officialdom banished mounting hopes and fears by explaining that what the Boston Press labeled "co-education" was no more than the unsensational policy of joint instruction that has been pursued for four years...
Uppermost in the mind of every solon is the fact is the fact that a Presidential election is less than two years away. There are 51 potential Presidents among Senate Republicans. Even the baby Senators are getting illusions of grandeur. No one wants to tie himself to a party program until he has had more time to sound out public feeling, and Republicans are still in doubt as to the exact meaning of their November "mandate." For these reasons the eightieth Congress is likely to be notable for what it does...