Word: broadness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...more grievous protests. They simply lack an outlet. Critics caviled in this case because cub reporters do not write editorials under their signatures on the front pages. This cub, finally fired, won fame by capturing a highwayman by masquerading as the highwayman himself. All this in the spirit of broad farce that is always carefree and occasionally comic...
Significance. Plain as a pikestaff loomed Pilsudski's chagrin at not obtaining a three-fifths parliamentary majority-either at his own election or Moscicki's-wherewith to amend radically the Constitution, increase vastly the executive power, and institute the broad program of reforms which he envisioned at the time of his coup...
...Welsh trouble is on this story; a gypsy wandering and a sad chivalry. He found Danzel again?but he flung away the shilling, into a California river under the broad moon. It was a strange token for such a book, through which the pulses of many lives smite vividly, stirred by a magnificent raconteur, who can make of his pen a witch's twig, a sword, a paint brush. A Welshman, Author Jones is dramatic critic of the San Francisco Examiner. This is his first novel...
...Impressionists. He has been consistently confused with his contemporary, Monet, by people who cannot tell black from white. Manet's figures are flat; Monet's trees and seas and flowery forests leap with a wind of movement. Manet loved light; Monet loved shading. Manet painted with a brush as broad as a glance of the eye; Monet put his color on in tiny dots. Manet saw life as a gleam; Monet saw it as a shimmer. It was late in life that Manet came to recognition; he was laughed at until a day when the Empress Eugenie stood in front...
...Orleans, an exquisitely voluptuous Creole girl, schooled in Paris, takes him?great-bodied, red-bronze of complexion?to herself as Man. They part, still lovers, and the episode is invested with the same universality that spreads over a vast hoard of experiences and impressions he gains traveling the broad Mississippi basin by canal, river and Great Lakes, by farmlands, mountains and new cities, back to Brooklyn, to lean on the front fence sucking a twig, to decide to quit picayune political hacking and try working with his big hands...