Word: broad
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Born as the son of a gardner, John Paul appeared like an obscure speck in the middle of the broad canvas of the 18th Century-a canvas streaked with blood, murder, rebellion, greed, and many winds of doctrine." In Scotland, John Paul grew up on a rocky soil, dotted with small hard flowers, flanked by the blue and white banner of the sea. The sea, before long, became his native place; he loved ships and the spin of water under a whirling bow; he once wrote down: "I will not have anything to do with ships which do not sail...
...hands of their wives, it is the attache's business to handle the wives. Such, at least, is the idea that forms this comedy which probably would seem all right in French, though it was originally written in German (by Rudolph Lothar and Fritz Gottwald), but sounds too broad in English. The tool of France is in this instance played by that notable actor of elegant gentlemen, Basil Rathbone. In an international crisis, he undermines the wife (Mary Nash) of the Spanish minister of war, who, by ardent persuasion, is coaxed into donning red pajamas during the second...
...cage is two or three times as large as the old one, and is square in construction. A complete set of nets for batting is installed. All indoor baseball practice will be carried on there, for the old cage will be used in the future for pole vaulting, broad jumping and weight events...
Golf. Will Rogers, professional funnyman, in his syndicated newspaper column, addressed Bobby Jones, golfer. He suggested that Mr. Jones refuse to play on golf courses that do not have long fairways and are not broad enough to be used as emergency landing fields for airplanes. Said he: "If you do this you will do as much for aviation as Lindbergh...
...Bremen, Germany, one Paul de Bay donned a burly green coat, shiny boots, a broad leather belt, a two-edged sabre. Anyone, thought Paul de Bay surveying himself before a mirror, would mistake him for a policeman. Smiling, he sauntered into the street...