Word: grandness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...conventions to the winds. Crediting its audience with more intelligence than do most Broadway producers, the Workshop and its director, Albert Marre, have produced a "Tempest" that crackles with surprises, fantasies, and abandon. Everyone on the stage at Brattle Hall last night, other than Prospero, was obviously having a grand time, and that feeling was what they tried most to transmute to the audience. "We are such staff as dreams are made on" became their thesis, and they proved it. By never once allowing a touch of realism to invade their island, their patch of earth became properly ideal, enchanted...
...reason was the big, annual all-station ball for the base's 3,900 sailors and civilian personnel. This year, the big feature was the election of "Miss Quonset Point." The triumphant queen was to be crowned at the ball; the commandant would escort her in the grand march. Everyone who bought a ticket got a vote, and sales were brisk...
...stay abreast of the times,, the Colorado state legislature defined grand larceny as the theft of anything worth $50 or more. The old limit...
...committee made a last-minute attempt to have Captain Smith change his mind. He refused. He also expressed a desire to "kick in the head" the Providence reporter who had written a story about Mrs. Clauson. When the grand march came, Captain Smith escorted his wife to lead the march. Nobody was crowned "Miss Quonset Point...
...Louisville. Last week at Jamaica the track was sloppy for the $40,000 Wood Memorial, the race that had been a Derby stepping stone for such great horses as Twenty Grand, Gallant Fox, Count Fleet and Assault. The odds on Olympia were a prohibitive 1 to 3. He shot into the lead at the start, in a driving rainstorm, and stayed in front by a length or two to the homestretch. There, mud-loving Palestinian caught him and forged slightly ahead. Jockey Eddie Arcaro stung Olympia once with the whip, then gave the form players a chill by hand-riding...