Word: grands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...betting windows rushed a fortunate few to collect $43 for every $2 wager, longest Derby odds since 1918. Bold Venture earned $37,725, got a blanket of roses, the privilege of having his name on the Churchill Downs gate five panels away from that of his half-brother Twenty Grand, winner in 1931. Jockey Hanford, undismayed by a 15-day suspension given him for "rough riding," chortled: "They've suspended me? They've set me down? Well, I guess I'll go out in the barn and spend the 15 days feeding sugar to that horse...
...significance of this event would be obscured by a distasteful flurry of paltry pellets of jingoistic mud. The "Hindenburg" was built for trausatlantic passenger service: she is the first airship to be commissioned for this purpose, since the "Graf Zeppelin" was primarily an experimental ship. Commanded by Germany's grand old man of the air, Dr. Hugo Eckener, the "Hindenburg'e" regular trips will be between Germany and South America; but this voyage to Lakehurst, if successful, will make air history. For it marks the first hesitant step of a process that air-minded men dream of--the establishment...
Dick Gilder, leading under-graduate political sage and sworn foe of the Roosevelt Administration has two grand wise-cracks to tickle the ears of his Republican bosses with when he becomes a brass-hat in the G.O.P. propaganda offices in Washington this summer. Best: "...Since God must be somewhere behind the New Deal, it's his way of avenging the South for the 'Reconstruction' period". In addition: "...Good sports in the Republican ranks say it's got to be taken; it's just retribution for Warren Harding...
...Republican tribute to the dead. He quoted Felicia Hemans, Tennyson, Shakespeare (twice), Joseph Addison, William Cullen Bryant, William Winter. He drew on three foreign tongues: from Dante, Lasciate ogni speranza, voi ch'entrate; from Bishop Jean Baptiste Massillon's funeral oration over Louis Quatorze, Dieu seul est grand; from a "lucid saying" of the Romans, Sic transit gloria mundi. Two he translated for the benefit of his less cultured colleagues...
Concentrators' comments on the faculty in the Department: Hill--amusing but choppy lecturer, good for elementary courses, authority on orchestration. Leichtentritt--lectures well, overemphasizes detail, an authority on opera. Davison--grand lecturer, expert in church music. Ballantine-- although weak as lecturer and tutor, authority on appreciation and form. Piston--his field composition, excellent lecturer and tutor for advanced men. Merritt--completely enthralled by music and thus inspiring and a good tutor, especially for more advanced men. Woodworth--excellent as glee club leader, not as strong as tutor. Ramseyer--excellent job as assistant in Music 4, best piano player in Department...