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

" The grand old days of pranking have gone away at Caltech, and that's what we are trying to bring back ," reported the Boston Globe, which noted that " security has orders not to intervene in a prank unless officers get Mannion's approval beforehand.

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.

In the 1930s, Cocteau had an affair with Princess Natalie Paley, the daughter of a Romanov grand duke and herself a sometime actress, model, and former wife of couturier Lucien Lelong .. Cocteau's longest-lasting relationships were with the French actors Jean Marais and Édouard Dermit, whom Cocteau formally adopted.

In an effort to attain complete independence for Lebanon, he concluded a secret agreement with Ferdinand I, grand duke of Tuscany in Italy, the two parties pledg

Recognizing this, the grand duke integrated it into the German Zollverein in 1842.

Monarchs have various titles — king or queen, prince or princess ( e. g., Sovereign Prince of Monaco ), Malik or Malikah ( e. g., Maliks of Middle eastern Mamlakahs ), emperor or empress ( e. g., Emperor of Japan, Emperor of India ), Shah of Iran, archduke, duke or grand duke ( e. g., Grand Duke of Luxembourg ).

* Ferdinando I de ' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany ( 1549 – 1609 ), grand duke in 1587

* Ferdinando II de ' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany ( 1610 – 1670 ), grand duke in 1621

* Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany ( 1769 – 1824 ), grand duke in 1790

* Ferdinand IV, Grand Duke of Tuscany ( 1835 – 1908 ), grand duke from 1859 to 1860

He also secured an alliance with the nascent Grand Duchy of Moscow by marrying his daughter, Anastasia, to the grand duke Simeon.

He seized Vilnius, overthrew Jogaila, and pronounced himself grand duke in his place.

The Union of Vilnius and Radom of 1401 confirmed Vytautas's status as grand duke under Władysław's overlordship, while assuring the title of grand duke to the heirs of Władysław rather than those of Vytautas: should Władysław die without heirs, the Lithuanian boyars were to elect a new monarch.

Another of Władysław's brothers, the malcontent Švitrigaila, chose this moment to stir up revolts behind the lines and declare himself grand duke.

The act included a clause prohibiting the Polish nobles from electing a monarch without the consent of the Lithuanian nobles, and the Lithuanian nobles from electing a grand duke without the consent of the Polish monarch.

Władysław supported his brother Švitrigaila as grand duke of Lithuania, but when Švitrigaila, with the support of the Teutonic Order and dissatisfied Rus ' nobles, rebelled against Polish overlordship in Lithuania, the Poles, under the leadership of Bishop Zbigniew Oleśnicki of Kraków, occupied Podolia, which Władysław had awarded to Lithuania in 1411, and Volhynia.

In 1432, a pro-Polish party in Lithuania elected Vytautas's brother Žygimantas as grand duke, leading to an armed struggle over the Lithuanian succession which stuttered on for years after Władysław's death.

Henry's marriage to Margaret, which had produced no heir, was annulled in 1599 and he married Marie de Medici, the niece of the grand duke of Tuscany.

The heir to the grand duke of Luxembourg may be titled prince-lieutenant (' prince deputy ') during a period in which the incumbent remains formally on the grand ducal throne, but ( progressively, most ) functions of the crown are performed by the ' monarch apprentice ', as prince Jean ( still alive ) did 4 May 1961-12 November 1964 in the last years of his mother Charlotte's reign ( she lived until 1985 ), and Jean's own son prince Henri 3 March 1998-7 October 2000 until his father abdicated and he succeeded.

Born in Baden-Baden, Maximilian was the son of Prince Wilhelm of Baden, third son of Leopold, grand duke of Baden, and Princess Maria Maximilianovna of Leuchtenberg, a niece of Alexander II, Czar of Russia.

* English translation: Sigismund III, by the grace of God, king of Poland, grand duke of Lithuania, Ruthenia, Prussia, Masovia, Samogitia, Livonia, and also hereditary king of the Swedes, Goths and Vandals.