Word: grands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...still spends his summers, has been a meeting place at one time or another for a generous quorum of most of the ablest younger legal minds in the U. S. There Justice Brandeis will this week celebrate his 81st birthday in the assurance that the next years in his grand-scale life may still be the greatest...
...signed last year, and that Italy's signature last week is "equivalent to signature of the original pact." Ambassadors Hotta and von Ribbentrop, having signed this ludicrous concession to a Dictator's vanity, were each rewarded by Vittorio Emanuele III, King and Emperor, with the Grand Cross of the Order of Saints Maurice & Lazarus...
Before they get jobs, the Grand Duchess and the Prince not only use the subtle wiles of conferring lofty titles on their landlords, but are also driven to a little plain theft. When they learn that the French government, highly solicitous of such unusual guests, has been having the grocers look the other way while Her Highness lifts a few artichokes, they are righteously enraged at the mean deception practiced upon them...
When, however, he asks for the four billion to save Russian oil fields from the English, Dutch, French, and Americans, and argues that since the Tsar was Russia's the Tsar is not dead, he is granted his request. As he leaves, the Grand Dutchess shouts at him "Tovarich", which is Russian for comrade...
Marta Abba, the Grand Dutchess, although an Italian actress, speaks English with a thrilling Russian accent. She has all the fervor that the part requires, and her sudden shifts from the sublime to the petty are brilliant...