Word: broad
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Locust Township lies in a quiet, verdant bowl in the mountains of Columbia County, Pa. Broad farms with prosperous farmer families upon them pattern the land like a soft patchwork quilt. It is ten miles to a town or city...
...getaway in a waiting automobile with a Canton license. The incident has led the nation to picture Canton, an ugly enough industrial town at best, as one of the largest stagnant backwaters of the Midwest's underground currents. This it may or may not be. There is a broad-beaten route between Canton and Pittsburgh along which bootleggers, white slavers and "reindeers" (dope-peddlers) have plied their flourishing trades. But the same route extends to many another Ohio city. To quote a civic-proud Canton Chamberman of Commerce: "If something similar should happen...
Five years ago, one solemn morning, many a statesman, many 'a senator, many a silk-hatted diplomat wound slowly through Washington's broad streets, crossed the green slopes beyond to Arlington, stood uncovered before the casket of the Unknown Soldier. John Wingate Weeks defied physicians' instructions, stood bareheaded that awesome morning, shortly afterwards became ill. Last week he died...
...should stand up before the Royal Society of Literature to receive its gold medal, many a critical eye would be upon him. Dean Inge would certainly make some acidulous remark next day. Lord Darling might crack a senile quip upon the spot. And Louis Raemaekers would be there. His broad Dutch pencil might well produce a devastating caricature...
...every commercial genius a Jew have long believed Dr. Julius Klein a Jew. He is a Republican Protestant, born to Frederick and Katherine (Giebenhain) Klein at San Jose, Calif., in 1886, married to Dorothy Bates of Cambridge, Mass., in 1915. He is slender, brown-haired, and has a notably broad forehead...