Word: grands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Grand Old Party...
...Grand Old Party of Lincoln, McKinley and Harding last week received the ultimate insult. In the American Magazine shrewd old Charles ("Charley the Mike") Michelson, ace Democratic press-agent whose propagandizing since 1928 gets an owl's share of credit for returning his Party to power and keeping it there, published a straight-faced article titled My Advice...
...preceded by trial races in which the two other candidates for the honor of defending yachting's oldest, ugliest trophy are Gerard B. Lambert's Yankee, and Rainbow, which now belongs to Chandler Hovey. Like everything else about America's Cup racing, contender trials are grand scale. The Preliminary Series, which starts May 29, is for testing rigs and training crews. It is followed by the Observation Series, which starts June 12, and the Trial Series, which starts July 3. Job of selecting the boat which will actually defend the Cup belongs to the America...
Forever Yours (Grand National). When Beniamino Gigli (pronounced zhee-lyee) was a choirboy in Recanati, Italy 40 years ago, he was called "Il Passero Solitario" (the solitary sparrow). When Enrico Caruso died in 1921 and Gigli inherited his roles at the Metropolitan Opera, he was called "the world's greatest tenor." Eleven years later when Gigli refused to take a 10% salary cut to help the staggering Metropolitan keep going, he was called names far less flattering, which so ''diminished" his "dignity as a man and as an artist'' that he went back to Europe...
Today the R.O.T.C. stages its first grand review at Harvard. If a certain particularly ornery horse doesn't lie down on the soldier who buttons his cinch, it will probably not be the last. Military science and Naval Science have large followings at Harvard as at other colleges. And if these R.O.T.C. men believe in the merits of preparedness and the rather completed ineptitude of the present U.S. force in comparison with other armies, let them make their grand demonstration today be but the opening gun in their own noise making campaign for the ideal of preparedness as against that...