Word: grands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with electric detonators 200 feet long. In Madrid the Cabinet, dramatically convened, agreed with Premier Largo Caballero that they must take what they called "the terrible decision" to order the detonating buttons pressed. All citizens of Toledo were ordered to quit their homes lest they go up in the GRAND BLAST, advertised to kill every one of the 1,400 cadets and 400 women and children...
...shoulders." Yindrich meanwhile found a "pretty girl'' from Buenos Aires amiably acting as interpreter for a Soviet cinema cameraman who had arrived from Moscow to film the fall of the Alcázar for worldwide Communist purposes. According to Ptlaum and Yindrich, net result of the GRAND BLAST operation was apparently the death of not a single White, the deaths of some 50 militia...
...form or another this year, the Harvard Tercentenary has been going on since June, with conventions of scholars entertained and entertaining at scores of minor celebrations staged by various schools and departments. That the Tercentenary was a prime academic festival not even Josiah Quincy could deny. In the grand windup last week, however, Harvard's sons appropriated the second and liveliest of the three concluding Tercentenary days...
Capitalist, not counterman, Mr. Durant went down to North Asbury last week to see that all was swept and garnished for the grand opening. According to his nephew Wallace R. Willett, he went through the new concessions "like a whirlwind." Mr. Durant took up a mop in one shop, a dish cloth in another, to show concessionaires his ideas of spotlessness. Next day he departed for his old home town of Flint, Mich, on other business while North Asbury housewives stormed the Market's debut, attracted by Mr. Durant's special lunches at 5? an item, his special...
...Holland Tunnel into Manhattan were met by policemen and confiscated, their drivers hauled off to the New York County House of Detention. Next day two obscure Brooklyn coal dealers named Nowosatka and Slutzky were arraigned in Felony Court on a charge of receiving stolen property. Fortnight ago a grand jury indicted them for dealing in coal stolen from the Pennsylvania property of Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron Co. and trucked into New York. The truck drivers were named as witnesses. Last week the grand jury followed up its indictment by recommending immediate war on the bootleg coal business by which more...