Word: grands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...limericks will not be printed about the same person until considerable time has clasped, and not even then unless it is a whopper, it is a good idea to develop a loss outstanding character rather then do a mediocre job on one of the grand patoots...
Farewell Again (London Film) expertly applies the Grand Hotel idea to a British troopship. The 23rd Royal Lancers, homeward bound on H. M. S. Somersetshire after five years in India, are informed by wireless that they are to have but six hours ashore in Southampton, must then push off again for patrol duty in the Near East (''Sorry men, but if we're going to own an empire, we've got to pay for it"). Well-managed cameras bustle about sketching, vignetting, peering into lives affected poignantly, happily, comically, by this upsetting circumstance, bring each little...
Playwright Crothers pays most of her attention to Susan, a skittish matron who has barged in on drawing-room Buchmanism abroad, and has returned to bring this grand new message of the inspirational values of open confession straight from the horse mouth of one Lady Wiggam to her own circle of friends. In one week end of sustained busybodying, Susan manages, by artful innuendo and a few lucky potshots, to disrupt the placidly illicit love life of her hostess, turn a well adjusted May-December marriage into a triangular mess...
...spring of 1936 Attorney General Homer Stille Cummings announced that the Department of Justice would investigate complaints of price-fixing. Presently a Federal grand jury began sitting in Madison, chosen because Wisconsin is the most centrally located of the ten States in question, because all but two of the indicted companies do business there. A year ago having examined some 18 tons of documents and endured sweltering heat for the longest period any Federal grand jury has ever sat in a Department of Justice case, the jury charged the defendants with price-fixing by: 1) operating two buying pools...
Honored. Swiss-Born Oscar ("of the Waldorf") Tschirky, 71, famed majordomo of Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel for 44 years, and his wife, Sophie Bertisch Tschirky, 71; with a dinner party attended by 1,000 people in the grand ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria, commemorating their 50th wedding anniversary. Toastmaster of the dinner, sponsored by 17 societies of hotel men and gourmets, was the New York Times's Editor John H. Finley. To the tune of the Wedding March, softly played by violins, Mr. & Mrs. Tschirky cut a 200-lb. wedding cake. They received felicitations from onetime President...