Word: grands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Those who favored lustier interpretations of the part were frankly disappointed at Gielgud's refusal or inability to scale the dramaturgic heights in the grand manner. Those who preferred the new school of low-key interpretation considered that Actor Gielgud admirably analyzed his own fluid impersonation of the world's best-known literary case of frustration when in Scene II Hamlet informs the Queen: 'Tis not alone my inky cloak...
Appointed. President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia University, Harvard Professor Clarence Henry Haring, President John Lenord Merrill of All America Cables, National Grand Councilor Francis P. Matthews of the Knights of Columbus, President Thomas John Watson of International Business Machines Corp.; by President Roosevelt; to solicit U. S. funds for a lighthouse in Santo Domingo in honor of Christopher Columbus; in Washington...
Died. Ahmed Tewfik Pasha, 91, Turkish statesman, last (1919-22) Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Sultanate; in Istanbul...
Although he gives only limited sketches of individuals, Bernstorff mentions in passing that the Archduchess Luisa was "more of a case for Sigmund Freud than for the historian," that Prince Max could only sleep with the assistance of powerful narcotics. His best portrait is of his friend Talaat Pasha, Grand Vizier of Turkey, a gentle cynic who, when pressed about the Armenian question, would suggest that it was solved since there were no Armenians left. Anxious to have Turkey represented at an international Socialist Congress, Talaat was embarrassed to find that there were no Turkish Socialists either. He appointed three...
...Houston, Tex. to be executive vice president of the Goldblatt stores went Major General Frank Parker, 64, wartime commander of the First Division, holder of the Distinguished Service Medal with two silver star citations for gallantry in action, the French War Cross with three palms and the Italian Grand Cross of the Order of the Crown, Commander of the French Legion of Honor, the Belgian Order of the Crown and the Order of Polonia Restituta. Said Brother Maurice Goldblatt: "Naturally . . . we feel very fortunate in being able to get a man like General Parker. With his army training...