Word: grandness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...There is no doubt in Kansas City as to who runs the town. It's big Roy Roberts, mighty, cigar-chewing mogul who sits complacently on his throne at 18th and Grand, and pulls the strings that make his puppets in public office jump to do his bidding...
Georgia Sothern, Grand Old Lady of Undress, suffered a routine contretemps when police arrested her after a show in Wilmington. She was fined $125 and costs for lewdness in a tent...
Headwinds. As the week opened, Bob Taft hurried in to repair his earlier flub on farm prices, assured the voters that he meant revision, not reduction, of the parity ratio. While Taft took the low road (North Platte, Grand Island, Crete, Beatrice, Wahoo), wife Martha took the high road (Hyannis, Broken Bow, York, Seward, O'Neill). In three jampacked days, Bob addressed 8,000 in 13 speeches; Martha delivered a dozen more...
...sooner had the Tafts bustled back to Washington than Tom Dewey flew into Grand Island from Albany. Standing bareheaded on a sound truck outside the Yancey Hotel, he apologized for his late arrival. Said he: "I ran into headwinds. I am tired of headwinds. I ran into a strong headwind in Wisconsin and I don't want any more...
Through Manhattan's Grand Central Palace last week crowded 20,000 of the nation's beauty-shop operators to inspect their trade's new tools. What they saw made some of them wonder if they hadn't wandered by mistake into a house of Procrustean horror...