Word: broadly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...white, "the bridal color." They shined up a train of cars, screwed onto each a Greek crown in electric lights. Chuffing off went tall, fair, handsome Crown Prince Paul, 36, brother of Greece's George II, and traveled up to the Yugoslav frontier to fetch his German fiancee, broad-faced, broad-smiling Princess Frederika Luise of Hanover, 20. The bridal train itself was six hours late on the run from the frontier to Athens-not, however, an undue delay for Greek trains -and there for nearly eight hours some 200,000 Greeks stood on the sidewalks, stamping their feet...
Died. Edward J. Cattell, Si, onetime novelist (The Mills of God, To the Healing of the Sea), latterly a portly, bewhiskered Philadelphia wit; in the Manufacturers and Bankers Club, in the Broad Street window of which he had become a permanent fixture, waving to all who passed. Short time before he had said: "When I see a pretty girl and don't look twice, it'll be time to call the Coroner...
...only be regarded as a great challenge to this particular academic community. We are asked to expend the money in such a why as to 'promote and elevate the standards of journalism,' using journalism in the widest sense of the term. The provisions of the will are very broad; there are no restrictions on the methods to be employed in accomplishing the desired end. After careful consideration and consultation with a number of journalists, the Corporation has decided that initially the income of the fund shall be used for fellowships which would enable men in newspaper work to come...
...ruddy little Crispin who becomes Lord Mayor of London, Whitford Kane personifies all the industry, sanity and lustiness of a jolly beefeater. Marian Warring-Manley as his good wife, Margery, waddles it like all the Wives of Bath and Mistress Quicklys who have dedicated their big bosoms and broad buttocks to England's earthy spirit...
...liberal education is meant an emphasis on the teaching of intelligent citizenship, which, in the words of Ernest Bates, is "knowledge of the nature of man, society, and government," then Harvard appears well on the way to its accomplishment. It by such an education is meant the broad cultivation of a man's intellect and social awareness with development of the mind as possibly the only tangible result, then Harvard is tending away from this ideal...