Word: breadth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...That it is the work of Titian all the critics who have seen it, with remarkable and unusual accord, agree. The noble design is his invention, and no one but he could have carried out in this rich and lustrous color such subtleties of detail, combined with breadth and solidity of form. Examine it closely and note these subtleties- the unevenness of the skin; the differences in the texture of the flesh, how here it sags and there it is drawn taut over the bones; the folds about the eyes; the slightly swollen lids, somewhat bloodshot; the inhaling nostrils...
...Scalawag. David Higgins is known over the length and breadth of the land for His Last Dollar, a play written, acted, produced by him for more than a decade. In this new piece, he again enacts a lovable, old scamp bent on doing good in the wickedest ways. He would marry his pretty granddaughter to the grandson of his partner (in the garage business). The grandson helps himself into trouble by helping out a bootlegging World War veteran. But the aged rascal fixes everything. The play consists for the most part of "canned" gag situations of the reliable "old soak...
...cultured outlook. It is not that any single theory is more correct than any other, but that a four out-of-five agreement on some subject reflects a singularly narrowed, amazingly uncritical, and therefore more or less uncultured, outlock. For just as uniformity predicts narrowness so is breadth inherent in culture. --The Daily Princetonian...
...periods swell with the breadth and abundance of the unspoiled continent, and with the vigor of a man who could live on it unsheltered. Yet they do not swell over in boasts, exaggeration or exclamatory wind. They have the sweep of Hermann Melville tempered by quiet judgment and an explorer's interest. When Daniel Boone tells a story he is introduced calmly as "a remarkable individual." A charging black bear is made no more ferocious than it seemed to a man who had slain many specimens and knew they were primarily vegetarians. The devouring of a Negro by wolves...
...Root, aged 81, spoke to rebuke the U. S. for deserting the League of Nations. Said he: "We have allowed insensate prejudice, camouflaged by futile phrases, to appear, but falsely appear, to represent the true heart of the American people, with all its idealism, with its breadth of human sympathy, with its strong desire that our country should do its share for peace and happiness and noble life in all the world...