Word: broadness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Smoot attitude seemed to many an observer to coincide remarkably with President Hoover's. Only the President's bitterest critics credit him with having been simple-minded or stubborn enough not to realize that Washington, with wet Maryland adjacent and the broad Potomac handy, is one of the easiest places in the U. S. to buy liquor. And only the fanatically Dry have failed to appreciate the sense of the Hoover policy on Prohibition, sharply announced soon after Inauguration (TIME, March 11). The gist of that policy was: "No more crusades...
Remark about girl as a "broad...
...announcement is strictly in line with the broad, enlightened and public-spirited policy of the Morgan firm in dealing with the questions in which the people are concerned. The fact that current is being delivered to household consumers by the Province of Ontario on the Canadian side of the river at 2 ¢ per kilowatt hour and at 8 ¢ on the American side tells its own story...
...bizarre that here, in this very building, a little over a month ago, the leading statesmen of Europe staged that famed and furious diplomatic quarrel, The Hague Reparations ("Sponge cake") Conference (TIME, Aug. 5 to Sept. 9). Queen Wilhelmina rose and began in her gracious contralto to roll the broad Dutch vowels of her Speech from the Throne...
...women, who were between the ages of 25 and 55, some were dressed with the restraint of style that indicates expense and others had an air of neatly inadequate penury. But all were businesslike. Of the men, one caught first attention-a stoutish man in a pincenez, with a broad waistcoat crossed by a gold watch-chain, who spent most of his time standing beside a blackboard. This was Wilbur Cherrier Whitehead, bridge-expert. The people with him were all students in his course for bridge teachers. When he or some other expert was not explaining plays to them...