Word: grands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Writing blandly but unsparingly of her friends, their affectations and misfortunes, Mabel Dodge Luhan's account of her grand passion is tolerable because she does not spare herself. Possessive, egocentric, feverishly jealous, she reproached Reed for paying too much attention to Italian architecture. Soon she was reproaching him for paying too much attention to other women, and writing angry letters to feminine friends she suspected of trying to steal him from her. Back in New York Reed dropped her a note: "Goodbye, my darling. I cannot live with you. You smother me. You crush me. You want to kill...
...landslide of the election must convince Americans that the "grand days" of '29 are over. Laissez-faire is destined to die; it has been condemned by an overwhelming majority of the people. Since we are embarked on a new policy of social and economic legislation to remedy the existing evils of big business and industry, dissenting groups must use their influence to see that the new laws are carefully thought out and wisely administered. Their minority pressure must be employed to insure care and thoroughness in the future. They must form a minority such as Jefferson envisaged in 1790 when...
...Houses with Adams on Monday and Tuesday, November 23 and 24, and will travel thence to Dunster on November 25 and 27, Leverett and Winthrop on November 30 and December 1, and Eliot and Kirkland on December 2 and 3. The circuit will end up with a grand climax at Lowell House, where the photographers will stay four days, from December...
Plumes in the Dust (by Sophie Treadwell; Arthur Hopkins, producer). The theatre enjoys better-mannered audiences than baseball, prize fighting and grand opera, but there are occasions when, on the stage, a playwright's line overshoots its dramatic mark and hits the audience on the funnybone. At Plumes in the Dust, which presents Actor Henry Hull as Edgar Allan Poe, one of several such shots occurred last week when Poe confessed to Elmira Shelton that he had been drinking, and Elmira, looking with tragic concern at his haggard face, exclaimed: ''Oh, Edgar, will you Take the Pledge...
...Beaux Arts in Paris and at that time became Architecte Diplome par le Gouvernment Francais. He served during the greater part of the War, was almost continually in the front line trenches until 1917, and in 1923 was awarded the Legion of Honor. In 1919 he won the Grand Prix de Rome and in 1921 was named Architecte des Batiments Civils...