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Word: grands (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...what role she would enjoy playing most, Miss Moran's eyes sparkled, "A giddy dowager," she exclaimed. "I think I would at that part to a T." A smile played over her lips as she considered the idea. "And I'd do that with Bill Fields; he's a grand comedian." The actress broke off to reminisce about her experiences when touring Europe with Fields before...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: With Wellesley Girls Around You Can Bet That I Won't Send My Son to Harvard,--Polly Moran | 2/19/1935 | See Source »

According to official statistics last week the German breed has been improved since Adolf Hitler came to power by sterilizing a grand total of 180,000 tainted Germans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: At Stud | 2/18/1935 | See Source »

Early Sunday morning a buoyant, almost jovial, man stepped off the 20th Century Limited in New York's Grand Central Terminal, consented to be photographed, refused to be interviewed, hurried through the almost deserted lobby. A handful of commuters recognized Herbert Hoover, clapped, cheered. On his first visit East since he left the White House, Citizen Hoover came to attend his first meeting as a director of New York Life Insurance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 18, 1935 | 2/18/1935 | See Source »

...pigs. There far from his swank Park Lane house, where the extravagance of his fabulous stag parties awed even his rich friends, the greasy, thick-set little Armenian contemplated disaster. Garabed Bishirgian was now the "Pepper King," and, as all Britons knew, the pepper pool was due for a grand smash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Pepper King | 2/18/1935 | See Source »

...half-pensioned soldiers of Napoleon, in the years after the Bourbon Restoration, the French Film, "L'Agenie des Aigles" is a credible historical document. These soldiers who in a changed France have nothing left but their ardent admiration of L'Empereur try to bring about a return of the grand age by attempting to seat L'Aiglon, the young son of Napoleon, on the throne of his father. Although they fail in the attempt, their remarkable loyalty and indomitable courage is faithfully reproduced in this picture. Perhaps a bit remanticized in treatment, it nevertheless has captured the quiet heroism...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 2/14/1935 | See Source »

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