Word: grands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wife and children." "Of course," added the witness thoughtfully, "if the Police Department see I don't make an honest living, it is all right." "Chowderhead" Cohen's police record was found to include 16 arrests for such offenses as receiving stolen goods, burglary and grand larceny; one sentence to Elmira, N. Y. Reformatory, one to a Federal penitentiary, two to Sing Sing...
...became king of Italy, he organized the Confederation of the Rhine "in the dearest interestes of his people and of his neighbors, he created the grand duchy of Warsaw and the kingdom of Westphalia. In 1810 nearly all of continental Europe west of the borders of Austria (and some besides) was Napoleon's or dependent on Napoleon. He made his brother king of Spain, his favorite generel king of Naples. He divorced Josephine and married the Archduchess Maria Louisa, he made his baby son the King of Rome...
...named by the grand jury was Philadelphia's Mayor, S. Davis Wilson, who was last to testify before it. In 1934 he objected to the proposed Philadelphia Co. reorganization as ''a gigantic racket engineered by insiders." Subsequently he approved it, became a director. Also omitted from the true bills were Joseph E. Widener, who was a Philadelphia Co. director, and Clerk Pennington who signed the worthless bonds...
...Rapture." Another follower was Charles Tristan de Montholon, a born courtier who accompanied Napoleon into exile because his debts were so great he could go nowhere else. Swaggering, hypersensitive, jealous Caspar Gourgaud also went along because he had no other choice. General Henri Gratien Bertrand, Napoleon's Grand Marshal, tall, skinny and timid, "had the face of a middle-aged woman who had for some unexplained reason taken to side-burns." Humorously aware of the ridiculousness of his little company, Napoleon enjoyed pitting the members against one another so he could keep better informed about them...
Such was the reveaing prophecy of Mogul, the Mad Medium who holds sway at the Keith Memorial Theatre in the Grand Lounge. Over 200 men and women were squirming with anticipatory nervousness, just for those precious minutes with Mogul. Once in the Presence, they could ask him any question, be it great or small, that was troubling their minds...