Word: broad
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Your President not only was a charming host, but he displayed a broad knowledge of the progress of the Free State." C. Mrs. John Garibaldi Sargent, wife of the Attorney General, arrived in Washing- ton from Ludlow, Vt., recovered at last from long illness. President and Mrs. Coolidge went to the Sargents' for a dinner which was a friends' reunion as well as the fourth function of a regular series conducted in wintertime by Cabinet members. Secretaries Kellogg, Mellon and Dwight Filley Davis had already performed their duties in this respect. Secretary Work's dinner was scheduled...
...flock of strange, crested birds flapped jerkily, like tired oarsmen, westward from England to the Newfoundland Coast. They dropped to land, some to die immediately -bundles of white, bay and bottle green feathers. Some capered crazily on their spindly legs, soon to die with broad, round wing outstretched in a last flap and necks outstretched - like architectural ornaments. A few lived. They were lapwings, whose eggs ("plovers' eggs") British gourmets find piquant. Only in isolated cases had lapwings before been seen in North America. They are natives of northern Europe and Asia and, ornithologists believed, lacked hardihood or strength...
...Tammen erred in the degree, but taking the whole thing by and large Denver rather than the publishers is responsible for the Denver Post. Denver apparently since the gold rush days, has liked its meat raw. . . . Many harsh things have been said about Bonfils and Tammen. Maybe TIME is broad enough and can spare the space to print the estimate of one man who through many years of association believes he got to know the real Bonfils and Tammen. I refer to a letter I wrote to Bonfils when Tammen died in 1924. It follows: "Ever since early this morning...
...Lord Trotsky; 2) Onetime Soviet Ambassador to Paris Christian Rakovsky; 3) Leading Soviet Propagandist Karl Radek. These and their immediate followers were sent away to individual exile in separate, widely dispersed towns of Asiatic Russia. Trotsky was scheduled to speed by rail from Moscow across European Russia, traverse the broad Volga, proceed again by rail through the steppes of Kirghiz and to the end of the line in the mountains of Turkestan. Thence he would pass by caravan over more mountains and steppes to remote Vyernyi, topping the uplands of Semirechensk, and distant some 150 miles from the Chinese frontier...
...editors are forsaking any pretence of responsibility toward the reading public. Syndication of features and even of editorials on questions of national importance is tending to stamp the daily press of the country with the seal of a few powerful corporations or individuals, with a natural paralysis of broad and constructive thought...