Word: grands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Everything being ready for the Grand Smash, faultless politeness constrained Admiral Nagano merely to tell journalists that he had written a letter withdrawing Japan from the Conference at 6 p. m. This letter was not delivered to the British Admiralty until about midnight, by which time the Naval Conference had most enjoyably dined & wined with the Lord Mayor of London and the Prince of Wales...
Exclusive Story (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is based, according to advertisements, on revelations made to its producers by Hearstling Martin Mooney, whose jailing for refusing to reveal to a grand jury the sources of his news stories about New York's numbers game, roughly coincided with Exclusive Story's premiere in Manhattan last week. The revelations range from the not particularly astounding information that racketeers browbeat small shopkeepers and sometimes shoot each other, to the more alarming but less plausible hypothesis that the Mono Castle (called in the picture the Mochado} was ignited by a shipload of liquid...
...yacht priced at $36,000. Smallest was a child's six-foot playboat. Fastest was a Century hydroplane guaranteed to go 65 m. p. h. To see these and one hundred other craft, worth $2,000,000 and drydocked temporarily in Manhattan's Grand Central Palace, the biggest crowd (20,000) in its history attended the premiere of the annual Motor Boat Show last week...
...elevated railway crossing and deciding it was just big enough for one of its boats to get under, Wheeler Co. was disappointed to find that a two-inch snow fall had made it impassable. Last week, the Playmate encountered no mishaps on land, reached the back door of Grand Central Palace 35 minutes after leaving the water one mile away...
...writer, he played football, ran the 100 metres in 11½. An amateur matador, he killed his first two bulls when he was 15, was so badly wounded in 1925 that he had to give up athletics. In literature too he won prizes: France's Grand Prix de Litterature de 1'Academie Française, the prize of the Foundation Tunisienne, England's Northcliffe Prize and Heinemann Award. Author Montherlant, disapproving of the French policy in Tunis, refused the Foundation Tunisienne's 20,000 francs, handed over the Heinemann Prize to London's King...