Word: grandly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fiance, handsome David Michael Mountbatten, did not have to ask his cousin George's permission to marry. The Marriage Act makes an exception of the offspring of princesses who marry into foreign families. Milford Haven's royal great-grandmother, the daughter of Victoria, had married Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse. "Naturally," the marquess said last week, "I wrote the King as a matter of courtesy...
Coney by the Arno. During the past month, the party had carried on a national fund-raising campaign for the Italian Communist press. Florence's four-day Fèsta dell' Unità (sponsored by the Communist daily Unità) was the grand finale. For weeks, 200 workmen had labored to build a kind of Marxist Coney Island...
William Randolph Hearst got the Grand Cross of the Order of Carlos Manuel de Cespedes, the highest decoration the Republic of Cuba can give...
...From the Grand Plateau (12,880 ft), the climber can choose the path to the right or the sharper but less windswept one to the left. The thrills are much the same either way. At the top, the Alpinist may experience what one veteran climber called "the feeling of release and mystic union upon reaching the goal." All climbers do not attain that experience. Last month, eight climbers were caught in a blizzard near the top and froze to death...
Ever since, there has been war between Petrillo and A.G.V.A.'s parent body, the A.F.L. Associated Actors & Artistes of America, whose affiliates cover every entertainment field from circuses to grand opera. Petrillo was accused of signing up any actor who played so much as a musical comb. But he called it raiding when the "Four A" tried to enroll musicians who,. according to Petrillo, only stepped into the spotlight or said two words like,"Hello, hello." Many entertainers solved matters by belonging to both unions...