Word: broadness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cross-legged tailors were busy last week cutting scores of classic Roman togas from wide bolts of the traditional white woolen cloth. To make a toga for a wearer 5 ft. 8 in. tall, they snipped out a flattened semicircle, 17 ft. from tip to tip, and 5 ft. broad at the widest point. After binding the edges the toga was complete, was taken to the Accademia Vergiliana, famed Mantuan university. There, later in the week, arrived august professors from every Italian university; also from Oxford, Cambridge, La Sorbonne and many another foreign seat of lore...
...Shakespeare's plays," he continued, "The Taming of the Shrew,' with its broad comedy and somewhat coarse wit, should lend itself best to presentation in modern dress. With this alteration, however, the psychology of the actors must completely change, for instead of acting in sweeping gestures and self conscious style which is always necessary in costume plays the players will have to change to the modern style of repression in which their actions must be cloaked behind a carefully cultivated finesse...
...programs range from rhapsody or movements from a symphony to waltzes marches, a sugary trifle, or the operetta of the hour. The scope is broad and appeals to an extensive public...
...Locke '27 and C. A. Pratt '28 are entered in the shot, discus, and javelin, with G. I. Shapiro '28 in the hammer throw. A. E. French '29, David White '29, G. A. Tupper '29, R. T. Dunn '28, and D. C. Dow '27 are to compete in the broad jump. It is uncertain as yet as to whether J. J. Weinstein '27 will be able to go for the hurdles...
When Professor Baker left the University in 1924 the CRIMSON then "extended to Yale its congratulations not only for securing a man of such talents, but also for possessing governing authorities broad-minded enough to look at the drama in its proper light and handsomely to provide for its instruction." Those sentiments are still valid; each year will necessitate further congratulations--and further regrets...