Word: grandest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...released by a switch from the circulation desk. If a thief should manage to slip a book out of the reading room, he would still have to get it past Mr. Matthews at the outside door. Matthews, a virtuoso bartender in his spare time, is a doorman in the grandest manner, complete with English accent. Since the Library's opening, he says he has only had to stop one person--a freshman who wandered out absentmindedly with a rare book in his hand...
...Astaire routine features a shelf-full of dancing shoes: trick photography at its grandest of course, but Astaire's grimaces when he sees a circle of shoes dancing on the floor, are enough to make the show worth seeing. Aside from a couple of Gershwin revivals, the music is no great shakes, but who cares about music when Fred Astaire is capering around the screen...
Murder of the Cathedral. Muscovites were likely to control their emotion. They could remember Moscow's first attempt to build a skyscraper, the Palace of Soviets, which was to be the world's biggest and grandest edifice. "The monument will be erected on a square [near] the Moskva River embankment," stated the plan, sponsored by Molotov. "The said square will be enlarged by tearing down the Cathedral of Christ the Redeemer...
Georges Rouquier, who "conceived and produced" this film, clearly has this understanding of his medium, combined with creative inspiration and boldness. The subject-the daily and lifelong effort of rural man as a part of nature and as a portion of eternity-is one of the grandest there is, and has inspired a long creative tradition. In that great line, Farrebique deals with its theme in terms which the theme cries out for-absolute realism...
...right by the memory of Marse Robert. After all, he was the greatest and grandest officer the United States Army ever produced...