Word: grands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their exhaustive probe into the mysterious question of what becomes of their money. Their report to the legislative committee on ways and means presents cold facts about several dozen of the 705 items of the state budget, all revealing that funds are being misused to the tune of a grand total of some thirteen million dollars...
From Sir Joshua Reynolds to the present day the Presidents of the Royal Academy have been sober distinguished gentlemen. No exception is the incumbent, Sir William Llewellyn, Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order, Commander of the Legion of Honor, recipient of the Grand Cross of the Crown of Italy. A painter of Queens, he has produced dozens of slick portraits of Queen Mary for clubs, asylums, other institutions. That ardent water colorist Wilhelmina of The Netherlands is so enamored of his brush that she has made him a Grand Officer of the Order of Orange Nassau. Serious critics prefer...
...rest of the picture belongs to Marie, Emilie, Cecile, Annette and Yvonne Dionne. Their entrance, while the sheriff helps their amazed father warm blankets, quilts, coats to wrap them in, is at once touching and hilarious. The picture sketches their early career through newsreel shots and ends in a grand climax especially made for the picture. This exhibits the Quintuplets singing, tipping over their chairs, groveling on the floor, beating trays with spoons and shouting until their nursery sounds like a backyard with a fox in it. By this time Dr. Luke has received both his hospital and the Order...
Most pleasantly surprising, perhaps, is to see Marlene's ability with comedy. She no longer stoops to conquer with her legs, but none the less her dignity in this picture is dropped from the grand tragedienne level. Comedy is throughout the sustaining force. From the point at the beginning where Adventuress Dietrich bumps together the heads of a jeweller and a psychiatrist, in order to get away with a gorgeous string of stolen pearls, to the point at the end where those same two dupes are joyful witnesses at the wedding, the atmosphere is charged with worldly, debonair mirth...
DEFENDER OF DEMOCRACY-Emil Ludwig-McBride ($3 ). Biography of Czechoslovakia's Grand Old Man, Thomas G. Masaryk, by the prolific German journalist-biographer...