Word: grandly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...result of the action of the Board of Trustees, a fourth act will be provided for the prolonged drama of the Dartmouth's "freedom and responsibility" controversy. The Trustees had earlier been expected to produce a grand final at the end of act three by a conclusive decision on the reports and counter0reports laid before...
...Buster Dewey, his Republican opponent, grinning down from an anticorruption platform, Mr. Lehman had to step fast. He also had to step delicately, because although he had twice before superseded troublesome Democrat Geoghan with special prosecutors, he refused to remove him from office at the request of a special grand jury two years ago. Last week, after hearing both Mr. Geoghan and Mr. Herlands present their cases, Governor Lehman announced that Mr. Geoghan would be superseded again, delayed naming a special prosecutor to investigate Mr. Geoghan and other Brooklyn law-enforcement agencies...
...Grand Illusion (Erich von Stroheim, Pierre Fresnay; TIME, Sept...
...Died. Grand Duke Cyril Vladimirovitch, 62, pretender to the non-existent Russian throne, first cousin of Russia's late Tsar Nicholas II; of blood poisoning; in Neuilly, France. A convivial royal liberal, Grand Duke Cyril flitted through Europe's night life, married a divorced woman, the Grand Duchess Victoria of Hesse-Darmstadt (an offense for which he was temporarily banished from Russia). In the Russo-Japanese War he was blown up on the Petropavlovsk at Port Arthur. When the 1917 Revolution began, he placed himself and his regiment at the service of the Duma, fled when Kerensky...
More than any other writer of his rank, Ernest Hemingway tells his stories by means of pungent, unexpected, abbreviated dialogue. Characters are revealed in sharp, blind, tormented speeches which break through commonplace talk. In some of Hemingway's stories, notably Fifty Grand and The Killers, so much of the narrative is implicit in the dialogue that they read almost like acting versions. For these reasons many a reader has wondered how Hemingway would be as a playwright...