Word: grander
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicago the hotel was bigger than other hotels, and grander. There were pipes without end for cold water which ran hot. and for hot water which would not run at all. . . . Men in those regions . . . make their plans on a large scale, and they who come after them fill up what has been wanting at first. Those taps of hot and cold water will be made to run by the next owner ... if not by the present."-Anthony Trollope...
...American people as well as to the Filipinos. . . . Patriotic Filipinos can ill begrudge the hardships that may be occasioned, knowing full well that liberty has always entailed great burdens and responsibilities. . . . I'm happy and I'm grateful. I envision for my people a future grander and more glorious once we are independent and free...
When the Associated Advertising Clubs of America expanded into the grander International Advertising Association in 1928, the above paean and many another was sung to the Association's smiling, backslapping, handshaking new president, an amazingly energetic exuder of amiability. Last week hundreds of admen whose hands Charles Clark Younggreen has shaken and who take pleasure in being able to call him "C. C." were impressed to learn that he, upon whom has been conferred "every honor that organized advertising had to give," had set at rest the profession's uncertainty as to his future affiliation. Two years...
Shanghai was to Tokyo last week only another Tientsin, on a much grander and more glorious scale (see p. 21). Japan has many objectives, but a very big one is to scare the biggest Chinese city, Shanghai, into dropping the boycott of Japanese goods now general throughout China, and into buying Japanese goods. The big businessmen of Tokyo, Osaka and Kobe were under the strange but powerful impression last week that by employing Might in its crudest form the Japanese Empire can sell to China. After all, what was "The Opium War?" Chinese say it was a successful exhibition...
After this slight Apologia Pro Columna Sua we must turn to grander things. Tonight in Sanders Theatre the Boston Symphony Orchestra will play Strauss's. "Ein Heldenleben," a "Tondichtung," or in simplified terms "A Hero Life" a "Tone Poem." Out of deference to the artistic spirit the Vagabond will not launch into his usual scholarly criticism. He is willing, may desirous, of abiding by the composer's dictum that, "There is no need of a program. It is enough to know that a hero is fighting his enemies." That is the crux of the whole work; bear it in mind...