Word: grands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From John Hamilton John Janson soon received the $1,000 grand first prize. The Republican bigwigs were particularly pleased to have him win because a few weeks ago he had made stump speeches supporting his father, Harold J. Janson, as a candidate for Judge of Maricopa County on the Democratic ticket. Father Harold lost in the primary...
...doors of Manhattan's soot-flecked Grand Central Palace this week open on the 1939 version of the greatest annual U. S. fashion parade, The National Automobile Show...
...music of Scottish folk songs (Bonnie Dundee, The Campbells Are Coming) and Irish jigs (Rory O' More, Donny Brook Boy), the knight-like Dragoons and their sturdy mounts cut centaurian capers with the precision of the Radio City Music Hall's famed Rockettes. For their grand finale they charged the length of the ring. Their director, Major D. A. Grant, explained that training the horses to keep time with the music was a job that took a year and a half of patient effort. Eventually, however, they learned to alter position and formation by taking their cue from...
This week both the simple and elaborate methods of rival motormakers in gauging public opinion take their annual road-test at the 1939 Automobile Show in Manhattan. The 200 glittering, four-wheeled debutantes now arrayed in Grand Central Palace and soon to appear in 30 other shows throughout the U. S. have many a new selling-point, gadget, mechanical feature (see p. 77). The numerous changes in this year's cars are striking evidence of the motor industry's urge to give the public exactly what it wants. In the creation of some of the new car features...
...never forgot with passing years. To him, New York centered not around the Stork Club and Minsky's, but around Penn Station and Grand Central. And now at Harvard, Vag can occasionally hear the engines shifting in the yards across the Charles. The sound comforts him in his lonely penthouse...