Word: broadness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hurt my feelings when I was barred from the broad breakfast table at the White House, where we were served buckwheat from Ohio, with maple syrup from Vermont and sausages from Maryland or the Chicago stockyards, I don't know which...
Down the gangplank walked Simon Y. Patino, Bolivian Minister to Spain, a man worth ten times ten million good U. S. dollars. This short, broad man with a pug-dog face was accompanied by two sons, Rene and Onlino, two secretaries, two valets, one manager, one physician and 50 pieces of luggage. To the immigration men he handed a diplomatic passport...
...book deals with the influence of the French Revolution on British society-using that word in its broad sense-and parallels to some extent the present day influence of the Bolsheviki on nations outside of Russia. Readers of Carlyle, of Burke, of biographers such as John Morley, of other historians, will have a clear idea of the magnitude of the diversified reactions which the bloody fall of the French monarchy had in England. But in this book these influences are specifically set forth in relation to the then radicals and with an intensely penetrating analysis of an aspect...
...grace and subtlety that made her famous. Mr. Molnar wrote an intricately interesting study of a woman wild to jump the hedge of life's convention. He failed to set his study in a sufficiently decisive dramatic narrative. The woman's character is there in all its broad sweep and tiny detail. Who cares? The tale is tiresome. The Frohman production was surprisingly uneven for such an astute organization. They supplied actors and scenery instead of blending them...
Bluffing Bluffers was a minor grain in the Christmas grist. It started out to laugh at politics-usually not a difficult thing to do. After the first act, it slipped into melodramatic farce with all the values torn into broad comic strips and hurled heedlessly across the footlights. The tearers were a downtrodden doctor who sets himself up as the bunk boss of a small town, and a rich and vapid widow; the opposition was the Irish Imperator of the village. Occultism is included and a fake Hindu servant. Most of the acting was negligible...