Word: asprawl
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...profit system, bothers Mr. Young a good deal. He thinks society should be communal, that work should be held noble and money-getting base. These ideas, and his trial (at which he slept) for sedition with other Masses editors during the War, and his eccentricities, such as lying nakedly asprawl on his hill for sunbaths, make his Connecticut neighbors view "that c'toonist" with some alarm. They are reassured, though somewhat puzzled by his deep vein of quizzical, kindly humor. His life has been most unconventional, they feel, but they know it has been rich and gentle...
...cathedral of motion picture," world's largest theatre. They came-the Mayor, actors, chorines, bankers, merchants, lawyers. They beheld a vast, bronzed, Spanish Renaissance structure imposing its Moorish splendor upon the corner of Seventh Ave. and 50th St., in the backyard neighborhood of Broadway, otherwise asprawl with garages, night clubs, hotdog stands, pawn-jewelers. Inside it was golden-brown, well ventilated, pagan-like in its florid adornment. Three organists played in grand concert on a Kimball organ, which is said to have the properties of a symphony orchestra. Then came an invocation: "Ye Portals bright . . . unite...
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