Word: grandly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...series of Saturday Evening Post articles ("Five Years of Roosevelt-and After") last week related that in 1933, just before his inauguration, Franklin Roosevelt horrified his advisers by receiving two crackpot money theorists at Warm Springs, Ga. The President-elect huddled with them for two hours, had a grand time comparing heresies. "The hero of this adventure would be no stranger to the Roosevelt of today. There is the same physical courage, the same friendliness, the same susceptibility to the new and untried," reflected Mr. Moley...
...Jitteriest was the 998-square-mile Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, a peanut squeezed between the cracker-jaws of the Maginot Line and the Westwall. At Schengen, where Luxembourg tapers off to a point between the French and German borders, French and German machine gunners were separated by just 400 yards of no man's land, sat facing each other waiting for orders to fire. The Duchy ordered Schengen evacuated of all foreigners...
Hardly a man is now alive who remembers Dan Beard except as the be-buckskinned, gimlet-eyed, weather-resistant Grand Old Man of the Boy Scouts. Yet his autobiography gives only eleven pages to his career as founder and National Commissioner of the Boy Scouts. Apparently "Uncle" Dan thinks his 30 years of Scouting is altogether too well known-it "seems to have wiped my past history off the slate," he complains. His picturesque record of a Vanishing American, written with a sort of grizzled spryness, covers his first 60 years, before he joined the Boy Scouts...
...Perry in 1933-34-36. So have Frenchmen-René Lacoste in 1926-27, Henri Cochet in 1928. Nearest an Australian ever came to the U. S. title was in 1933, when steady, sturdy Jack Crawford (French, English and Australian champion that year) was nosed out of a tennis grand slam in the final...
...France, carrying 1,777 passengers (400 more than her normal capacity), docked safe & sound after following a secret course with portholes blackened and blue bulbs burning dimly on deck. Her officers denied, her jittery passengers swore that they had spotted German U-boats. Café Socialite Grand Duchess Marie, delighted to be alive, took up a purse of $2,500 for the crew...