Word: grandness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harvard received. It would seem that their plan was successful, for around the old mansion there grew Radcliffe College. Soon the classes moved to other buildings, and Ireland's Folly was used entirely for administration offices. Board meetings and teas were held in the Oval Room, and the Grand Ballroom upstairs became the headquarters of the Alumnae Association...
Maverides, a 38-year old Prince Street, Cambridge, resident, was indicted Monday by a Middlesex Country grand jury on the armed robbery charge. Seven witnesses of the Coop holdup were said by police to have established Maverides' connection with the Friday, January 9 robbery...
Evelyn Waugh, grand old man of Britain's bright young men, reported back (in This Week magazine) after a look at Scandinavia. He found the Danes "the most exhilarating people in Europe. . . ." On the Swedes: "They believe very firmly in their own sanity." The sight of Norwegian statuary bearing no evidence of "any intellectual process or spiritual aspirations" moved him to wonder "what hope there was for the people who had made...
George Bernard Shaw, bright young man of Britain's grand old men, made instructive reply to a Bible student who had written him in some distress because Shaw had sold his late wife's Bible. He had plenty of other Bibles left, said Shaw soothingly, and besides, the Bible was "not a book but a literature; and like all literature it contains not only wise doctrine and inspired poetry, drama and edifying fiction, but is mischievous and su- Sir Thomas himself was conducting an orchestra at 10. perstitious. . . . Until the Kingdom of Heaven is within you, you will...
Conservatives. In Venice, 400 licensed gondoliers asked the city fathers please to bar motorboats from the Grand Canal, to preserve 1) the prestige of the gondola; 2) the foundations of the buildings; 3) the lives of tourists...