Word: broadly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Broad, clean, tree-planted streets diverge from the Omon (Great Gate), near which stands a monument (TIME, July 26) to the 730 geisha and joro girls who perished during the earthquake. Within the quarter dwell in comparative luxury the 3,000 girls who are envied of their 50,000 lesser imitators throughout Japan...
...night but Sunday she performed a strange rite. Entering a small cubicle engaged for her in advance, she closed the door, molded a blob of wax, placed it on the bridge of her flattish nose. She fastened flesh-tinted court-plaster to her slanting eyes, creamed and powdered her broad cheeks, all so deftly that an Indo-European girl, or at most a Eurasian, left the dressing-room where a little Nipponese had gone in. Not until she reached Detroit last week was real attention paid this young woman by newsgatherers. Then the fact was broadcast that...
Kosher Kitty Kelly (Viola Dana). The Jews and Irish are at it again, this time in cinema based on the play by the same name. Assorted gangsters, policemen, heroes, heroines emerge from the fracas in a glowing Hebraic-Hibernian conglomeration for the delight of broad-minded onlookers...
Parents. "I had the right sort of parents. My father had qualities that were greater than any I possess. He was a man of untiring industry and great tenacity of purpose. His long experience in local office gave him a very broad and, I found, a very accurate knowledge of law. ... He would be classed as decidedly a man of character...
Hundreds of square miles it covered, the broad upper valley of the Sacramento. Herds of pedigree cattle browsed its meadows. Orchards bowed with tons of fruit. Gardens of European truck spread for acres, efficiently irrigated. The cavalcade passed through many a village of Sutter's clean Kanaks slaves. Flowers smothered the walls of the master's hacienda where a feast waited-salmon trout, venison, bear's paws, crocodile pears-served on Spanish plate by girls from the Sandwich Isles while a Hawaiian orchestra played the "Marseillaise," the "Berne March...