Word: grandly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...adequate and best when singing; Teddy Hart and Jimmy Save pall occasionally, but theirs is the hardest assignment, and that they are less of an anathema than they are is a minor triumph. Top honors in the cast must go to the female sex; Wynn Murray, as Luce, is grand both in her songs and in her interpretation of comedy; Mary Wescott, as Luciana, is likeable though her voice is a bit thin compared to the others; supreme in looks and in singing is Muriel Angelus, as Adriana. Too much cannot be said in her praise, for her appearance...
Italy, busy celebrating the 16th anniversary of the March on Rome, last week made two moves to bind what Italians call their ''fourth shore," the African colony of Libya 350 miles across the Mediterranean, closer to the mother country. The Fascist Grand Council decreed that Libya is henceforth part of Italy proper. Its four provinces, organized in 1934, are now political equals of the Italian provinces and will be represented at Rome...
...Boston Chamber of Commerce he discovered that the big silver trophy he had defended off & on for 17 years had mysteriously disappeared in transit from a Boston department store (where it had been on exhibition). Then, just as he was blasting the stiff-collared Bostonians with an explosion of Grand Banks invective, he was told that the race committee was unable (because of feeble public response) to raise the rest of the $10,000 expense money promised him. Hopping mad, Captain Walters, who had already received $4,000 from the committee, demanded that they produce the rest "immediately or else...
...subconscious," grand catch-all of irrational human nature, came into literature through James Joyce, into painting through Surrealism. The soberest writers and painters are glad of it, reckoning dreams and fantasies and unconscious motives part of the subject matter of art. They agree with most people in disliking Surrealism's fakes, faddists, exhibitionists. They value the systematic study of the subconscious by qualified scientists. Last week in Manhattan this respectful alliance between artists and psychiatrists was demonstrated in the first public exhibition of its kind yet held in the U. S.-106 pictures made by pathological patients at Manhattan...
...doubt if there is a more earnest admirer of crew at Harvard than myself," said Harlow. Of last year's undefeated record, he added: "I think it was grand...