Word: granded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been a great night for nudging and staring. The 800 people in the Waldorf-Astoria's Grand Ballroom had paid $250 apiece for dinner, and taken a certain clinical interest in one another. An army of waiters had produced a series of gastronomic spectacles, from turtle soup to brandied cherries...
...Paris and London, consulted with Socialists Léon Blum and Harold J. Laski. In London last week, Nenni told the press what they had talked about. All the world's "true Socialists" would shortly be invited into a new International to provide a common political strategy. Its grand premiere...
Veterans will make up over 4,000 of the grand total. Highest proportion of ex-servicemen is in the Business School where 359 out of 380 are former members of the armed forces. Other large percentages were turned in by the Law School (750 vets out of 800), Public Administration (32 out of 58), and Special Students...
...Another grande dame of grand opera packed Town Hall six days later. Busty, strawblonde Frieda Hempel, 60, was history's first Marschallin (she sang it at Rosenkavalier's 1911 premiere in Dresden...
...selection found 312 pages of first-rate poetry; Housman finds only 129 pages. Included in his selections are the Ode on Intimations of Immortality, Tintern Abbey, Michael, the best episode from The Prelude, a few narrative poems and a swatch of lyrics, 14 of Wordsworth's grand total of nearly 150 sonnets (some of which Housman considers greater than Milton's). All the Lucy poems are included. From one of them Editor Housman invites those who still doubt Wordsworth's supreme place in English poetry to read the stanza...