Word: grands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Admiral William Veazie Pratt with an accusation of "selling the navy out to the British." Equally criticized for his stand in the battle of mobile 6-inch v. heavy 8-inch guns, Admiral Hepburn swept his mobile Black Fleet down from the Aleutians during last summer's grand maneuvers, proved his point with a thoroughness which vastly dismayed such 8-inch conservatives as the man he will succeed next June, bearded Admiral Joseph M. Reeves...
Arriving from an audience with the Holy Father, Cardinal Verdier, Archbishop of Paris, declared, "This grand old man confided to me his agonizing anxieties. He reaffirmed to me that the eminently pacific policy of France remained on this earth his best and greatest hope." Declared United Press from Paris: "Premier Benito Mussolini has sent to Premier Laval his personal assurance that he will not quit the League and will not attack England...
...passed as she was to wither them with a glance. Once she suddenly discovered that her name had 13 letters, forthwith had herself billed as Olivia Fremstad, changed back again to Olive when she realized that Richard Wagner had 13 letters in his name. She adopted the grand manner without reservation, kept a houseful of servants, a car and a chauffeur when that luxury was uncommon. In her grandiose moods it was nothing for her to spend $700 for an evening dress, or to buy a dozen hats on one shopping tour. But she was just as likely to closet...
...City of New York or the Metropolitan Opera, both avid for her famed Isolde costume. Most passe singers are more pathetic than impressive. But Fremstad defied pity when she stood among her relics. She wears pince-nez now. Her greying hair is piled high on her head. But the grand manner was still hers when a reporter queried her about the Elsa mantle, asked its age. Her eyes snapped then as they did at the opera house: ''What difference does it make? It is Elsa, Elsa, Elsa! It lives its own life...
...jazz what the poetic spirit is to poetry. Its exact definition, however, has given jazzmen many a troubled hour. Author Hugues Panassie of the classic Le Jazz Hot tentatively explains "swing" as "une sorte de balancement dans de rythme et la mélodic qui comporte toujours un grand dynamisme." To black Bandmaster Chick Webb of Harlem's Savoy Ballroom, swing "is like lovin' a special girl, and you don't see her for a year, and then she comes back it's somethin' inside...