Word: broadly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...adjudged sound, their sum total remains negative and barren. Talk rumbles in England that a change at the helm of State is overdue. As the New Year looms, it is pertinent to re-examine Stanley Baldwin. Policies. The Prime Minister's policies are that he is honest, broadly disinterested, hugely naive, and means well. To paint another man in such broad, flat colors would be to paint him out; but it is from the spaciousness of Mr. Baldwin's qualities that he draws his surprising strength...
Blake mounted the leaves of the first edition of the "Night Thoughts" in large sheets of Whatman paper and on the broad margin thus gained he painted a series of imaginative designs. He unhesitatingly rejected the ordinary mode of printing, and evolved a method which, in some of its technical details, was entirely new. It is possible that his first experiments were made...
White Slaves. The charge that France is the chief "country of supply" for "white slaves" had to be parried, last week, by Aristide Briand amid all his other worries. Not only did this charge loom as a broad hint in the emasculated "Part No. 2" of the League's "white slave" report, published last week, but it was flatly made in the original and suppressed report?copies of which have leaked...
Brass Buttons. Beneath the broad blue bosom of a Manhattan cop an honest heart goes thumping through this play. He rescues Rosie Moore from suicide. Thump, thump. She becomes a mother, poor unmarried lass. Thump. The cop finds her betrayer. Thump, he smites him on the jaw. He marries Rosie. Thump, thump, thump. The acting seldom has a chance. Experienced playgoers waiting to be stirred went through the evening, thumpless...
...Edward L. Doheny are among sitters who have sat for portraits to Howard Chandler Christy, deft and prolific creator of girl head covers for magazines. Last week Artist & Mrs. Christy reached Manhattan on the Italian Liner Conte Rosso (Red Count). Soon impertinent newsgatherers were asking: "Did you paint Mussolini?" Broad and smug came an answering smile from the left-handed little man who gets $1,700 for a magazine cover. Quietly he replied that among his luggage was a portrait for which Il Duce had posed three times. . . . Mrs. Christy, vivacious, cut in. Cried she: "Mussolini is the most marvelous...