Word: grandly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pompously the Grand Council decreed last week that henceforth no Italian, male or female, may marry a non-Italian unless the Italian Ministry of Interior is willing to make an exception and issue a special permit for such mixed marriage. Further, the Grand Council, well knowing that Italian males have been prone to "go native" with Ethiopian females, issued a veiled but stern decree for punishment of "anyone who performs any act that might injure the prestige of the Italian people in territories of the Empire." Finally, the Grand Council, taking cognizance of the fact that Britain has for years...
...World Hebrewism," charged the Grand Council, "has been the inspirer of antiFascism in all fields. . . . Hebrewism abroad . . has been in some periods . . . unanimously hostile to Fascism...
...anticipating nervously ever since the establishment of the story's time and place -finally begins to rattle, it is almost an anticlimax. Unlike the same phenomenon in San Francisco, it inflicts no more than a few severe bruises on the cast, leaving most of them intact for their grand reunion later. Success or failure of such a picture as The Sisters depends largely on how well it evokes the mood of an era which lies within memory's horizon for many people who will see it. In this respect, Milton Krims's screen play, Anatole Litvak...
...Grand Illusion (Erich von Stroheim, Pierre Fresnay; TIME, Sept...
...seen any snakes tonight, have you? No, not tonight-"Ce sont de sales bétes, ces serpents a sonnettes. . . " At the end of the Revolution, Lafayette cries: "C'est la victoire . . . l'alliance entre les Etats Unis et la France a triomphe!" Last program is a grand roundup of U. S. noises, including the roar of "les chutes du Niagara" birds twittering, a bear's grunt. Coney Island's tinkles and cries, the voice of Monsieur Thomas Dewey...