Word: grilling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Retorted Senator Moses: "The equipment of the room of the Committee on Rules has in it no grill, no wheel upon which anyone may be broken, no culinary equipment which can cause torture...
...Story. "But that is terrible!" says the first woman, watching the Grill couple stroll, "she was one of our own circle...
...What is so terrible about it?" expostulates her mother. "The shore is wide enough for us to pass by her. . . . You are already jealous of Madame Grill. But, my dear Bella, your husband is after all not a man of that sort. . . . You are the Baroness von Buttlär and I am the widow of General von Palikow. Well, doesn't that mean that we are two fortresses to which people who don't belong to us have no entree? . . . We simply issue a decree?and Madame Grill ceases to exist...
...devised original syncopation. At the end of his freshman year he left college, subsequently studied at the Yale art school and Manhattan's Art Students League for a period of a month apiece. These months he considers wasted. He gathered jazz orchestras which played in a New Haven grill and Manhattan's Rendezvous. He began to decorate night clubs as well as play in them, and gradually abandoned the tonal for the graphic art. He painted ornamental screens full of bearded Russians of red-coated huntsmen with filigrees of bugles and hounds. But the New Yorker encouraged...
...John H. Grill, longtime Democrat, Minnesota farm leader. Reason: "Mr. Hoover . . . is the most logical man we have ever had for president...