Word: grands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...back in Paris for more Matisse pictures, but his walls were getting so crowded that he insisted they must be painted to certain specified sizes. Three years later Teaman Stchoukine was still convinced that Henri Matisse was a fine painter, gave him carte blanche to decorate the grand staircase of his palace. In his narrow knickerbockers and high laced shoes, Artist Matisse frequented at that time the Moulin Rouge and the Moulin de la Galette, contemplating the dancing cocottes that lame Toulouse-Lautrec had painted so shrewdly a few years earlier. Artist Matisse felt that the farandole, a sort...
Died. Laird Doyle, 30, crack Warner Brothers film scenarist (Oil For the Lamps of China, Special Agent, Cain and Mabel); of a fractured skull and internal injuries received when his airplane crashed near Grand Central Air Terminal; in Glendale, Calif...
...average smoker consumes about one package of cigarettes every two days, making the grand total of approximately 150 packages in the college year. In aggragate, then, about 358,440 packages of twenty cigarettes, or 7,168,000 single coffin-nails, are smoked every year by undergraduates...
...being made to bite the dust, three in a row, from a range of a mile and a half, is worth salvaging from the fifteen-minute parodies on the nickelodeon days and brought back to feature-length standing, "The Texas Rangers" sets out to curdle the blood in the grand old style. Free from this now-fangled nonsense about Indians' being human beings, at least four of the reels are devoted to shots of the atrocious savages' being shot down in fabulous quantities by plucky little bands of Rangers. Fred MacMurray is the unblenching avenger who fears nothing...
This week the Paramount and Fenway offer entertainment of the pick-him-up-and-knock-him-down variety. As an antidote to the adventures of a wise-cracking radio columnist is shown a grand, old mother and son saga which is guaranteed to jerk a tear every foot...