He has become in this half century the grand old man of American history.

Grand juries were once common across Canada and old courthouses with the two jury boxes necessary to accommodate the 24 jurors of a grand jury can still be seen.

DeMille, associated with Paramount since 1913, kept making pictures in the grand old style.

The old structure of the grand slam was the U. S. Open, British Open, U. S. Amateur, and British Amateur.

The Muppet Theater is the setting for The Muppet Show — a grand old vaudeville house that has seen better days.

The old institution of grand juries still exists in some places, particularly the United States, to investigate whether enough evidence of a crime exists to bring someone to trial.

Near the castle are the ruins of the fourteenth-century palace of the grand jury and the old cathedral ( 1603 ) probably built on a design by architect Camillo Camillians.

Truman joked that Republican Party ( GOP ) actually stood for " grand old platitudes ".

However, some princely titles develop in unusual ways, such as adoption of a style for dynasts which is not pegged to the ruler's title, but rather continues an old tradition ( e. g. grand duke in Romanov Russia ), claims dynastic succession to a lost monarchy ( e. g. prince de Tarente for the La Trémoïlle heirs to the Neapolitan throne, or is simply assumed by fiat ( e. g. prince Français by the House of Bonaparte ).

If a château is not old, then it must be grand.

Brunhilda and Sigebert met Chlothar's army on the Aisne, but the Patrician Aletheus, Duke Rocco, and Duke Sigvald deserted the host and the grand old woman and her king had to flee.

The Châtillon agreement signed January 27 1548, when he was 5 years old, engaged him to Marie Stuart, queen of Scotland and grand daughter of Claude de Lorraine, first Duke of Guise.

mon pays, mes amours " was first sung during a grand patriotic banquet gathering about sixty francophones and anglophones of Montreal, in the gardens of lawyer John McDonnell, near the old Windsor Station.

When HCE is first introduced in chapter I. 2, the narrator relates how " in the beginning " he was a " grand old gardener ", thus equating him with Adam in the Garden of Eden.

The church is dedicated to the Virgin, and built in the form of a cross, consisting of a nave and four aisles — The old grand altar dated to 1628 and was built from Carrara marble wrecked on the coast, during its transit from Genoa to Antwerp.

In King Charles II's reign, he was employ'd under Sir Christopher Wren, in the stately buildings at Winchester ; as he was likewise in all the other publick structures, Palaces & c, erected by that great Man, under whom he was assisting, from the Beginning ( factually wrong, Hawksmoor was 14 years old then ) to the Finishing of that grand and noble Edifice the cathedral of St. Paul's, and of all the churches rebuilt after the Fire of London.

On his death the old oligarchic republic political structure was restored-a consiglio maggiore (" grand council ") of four hundred members and a consiglio minore (" small council ") of forty members-and it formed a league with Padua, Treviso and Verona.

Prince Charles was appointed grand admiral when he was but few days old.

The Street, 200 feet 12 Pole ( length ) | rods wide and two miles long, is bordered by grand old elms forming a natural arbor.

A final resting place for pioneers, peach orchard farmers, cholera epidemic victims, transcontinental railroad workers and a host of others, the cemetery is peaceful and shaded with a wide variety of grand old trees.

A grand old bald cypress tree in the Santee River valley, near Andrews, SC

It was according to Sillard " the grand old Republican of ' 98 resolved to attest the justice of the Republican of a later day, and hurl defiance in the face of English law.

This new assize did away with the old form of trial known as " compurgation " in accusations brought by the grand jury.

He attended Glasgow High School, but at the age of eleven joined his father and Douglas, the young 16 year old 8th Duke of Hamilton, ( 1756 – 1799 ), his father's pupil, on a grand tour of France, Italy and Germany.

The Palmer House hotel burned to the ground in the fire 13 days after its grand opening.

Later Ignacy Jan Paderewski played 107 concerts in just 117 days, traveling through America with his own railroad car and a Steinway concert grand piano.

Two days later, the same grand jury indicted Ed Reinecke, the Republican lieutenant governor of California, on three charges of perjury before the Senate committee.

After 23 days in jail, their bail was reduced to an affordable level and a grand jury refused to indict either man.

Trailing three games to two, McLain won the crucial Game 6 on just two days ' rest, aided by a grand slam home run from Jim Northrup.

In 1810 St. Francisville served as the capital of the Republic of West Florida as the local planters ousted the Spanish government and set up their own independent republic for a grand total of 74 days before being annexed to the rest of Louisiana as part of the United States.

Often the results of grand plans for expansion, now these broken down facades remind residents of both the glory days of Chalfont and its darker days in the not so distant past.

Although the bear stew is the big attraction to the festival, there is also a kiddies parade, grand parade, royal court ceremony, bands, dances, slow-pitch baseball, and many other events in all three days.

On January 19, 1994, after three days of evidence presentation, a grand jury handed up a 93-count indictment against Ferguson, which carried the possibility of up to 175 years in prison.

After 10 days she was released and later went on to help a grand jury prosecute the mental ward.

The missile strikes began three days after Clinton was called to testify before a grand jury during the Lewinsky scandal and his subsequent nationally televised address later that evening in which Clinton admitted having an inappropriate relationship.

On the relationship between Geoffrin and Stanislaw, the academic Maria Gordon-Smith writes, " The King knew Madame Geoffrin in Paris from his youthful days on the grand tour in 1753, when he was entrusted to her care by her father.

He asks her to stay for the grand opening in a couple days, but she says she does not know if she can.

Six days later on September 24, Garciaparra hit a walk off grand slam against the Arizona Diamondbacks to give the Dodgers a 5 – 1 victory with one week left in the regular season.

The building ’ s grand opening was for the premiere of the complete opera The Ring of the Nibelung which would run for four days from August 13-17, 1876.

During the reign of Gustav III, the palace had its grand days and was used as a summer residence, where a ceremonial court life was performed.

The grand opening ceremony was held on 23 April 1976, and the building was opened to the public two days afterwards on 25 April 1976.

After several days of intense negotiations, the two major parties along with the Popular Orthodox Rally agreed to form a grand coalition headed by former Vice President of the European Central Bank Lucas Papademos.

A pianist in the bar plays jazz every day from a baby grand piano in the centre of the room with a live pianist seven days a week, playing classic American Jazz.

More often he was referred to by his other title of " grand duke ", which pre-dated tsesarevich, being a holdover from the Rurikid days before the grand dukes of Muscovy adopted the title of tsar.