Word: broadly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...term "objects of artistic merit" will be used as the basis for choice and in the broad sense in which it was used last year. It includes painting, sculpture, prints, drawings, textiles, pottery, glassware and bronzes. It is asked that no student hesitate to submit any object which he owns because of its low market value, since the exhibition will be composed of objects of intrinsic art worth, which term very often is in no direct relationship to monetary value...
Harvard contended that Governor Smith had not shown himself to be nationally minded, that he is "wet" in practice as well as in theory, and described him as "a man with a broad smile, an affable winning personality, and, in fact, a great old scout...
...David grew up in Centralia he began more and more to understand the broad tolerance, the bitter and sympathetic scepticism that, had they been alloyed with ambition, would have made his brother Henry great as well as splendid. David, possessing that ambition, strengthened it upon his brother's wisdom. He looked at the World War with the wise critical eyes of early adolescence; he watched the branches of his family twist and struggle along trellises of suffering and achievement. He worked in the fields of the great farm, fell in love with Dora Tarkington, filled his mind with knowledge...
...Gilbert Emery, practically the only U. S. actor who can wear a double breasted suit as though he owned it. Critics are generously delighted with Paris Bound. The title refers to the widening quota of comfortable Americans to whom the sea of matrimony is simply a broad Atlantic with French divorce courts at the voyage...
Celebrity. The comedy of manners degenerates every so often into the comedy of "rackets." The comedy of manners satirizes anonymously on a broad plane of society. Its characters are types, such as the midwives of Plantees and Oscar Wilde's cookie-eaters. When audiences tire of types, satirists turn and flay contemporary figures in the professions...