Word: grands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Amazingly lucky, General Metaxas has risen to be Premier this year because Death has carried off Grand Old Greek Eleutherios Venizelos, rival General George Kondylis, onetime Premier Panayoti Tsaldaris and Premier Constantine Demerdjis...
...Rockefeller & family drove back to Paris to the Elysée Palace where President Albert Lebrun promoted him to the top-notch rank of Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor. Replied U. S. Citizen Rockefeller, 62: "The praise should go to my father for two reasons. The first reason is that in early youth I learned from my father, who is approaching his 97th birthday in the best of health, that the greatest satisfaction comes from rendering a worthwhile service. . . . The other reason is that it is only because of my father's unprecedented generosity...
Specifically the great aircraft engine makers, Hispano-Suiza, sent famed Sacha Guitry's good friend, Mlle Claude May, to win a Grand Prix d'Honneur in starched organdie with peplum jacket and one of their dazzling cars. More conservative, the Delage Company sent Mme Paul Cartier, daughter of a onetime Imperial Russian oil tycoon and wife of a small Geneva banker, to be "crowned" La Laur...
Died, John Patrick Sullivan, 61, potent Louisiana politician, archfoe of the late Huey Pierce Long, onetime (1911-12) Grand Exalted Ruler of the Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks; after a sunstroke; in New Orleans...
...dabbler in dilettantish restraint, Actor Baur roars like a lion, whispers like a snake, employs every known trick of the method which more inhibited actors contemptuously describe as "mugging." This is a technique which he acquired before the War when, as one of the villains in the Paris Grand Guignol, he used to appear on the stage in La Peste Rouge, wearing a shroud and dripping blood...