Word: broads
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...courtroom fell into a hush as, in a clear, well modulated voice Judge Allen began to read the decision. No sooner had she paused for a first swallow of water than TVA's General Counsel James Lawrence Fly broke into a broad grin. At the utilities counsel table gloom slowly spread over the face of the late Newton D. Baker's Cleveland law partner, William H. Bemis. For by the time Florence Allen, several gulps of water and 70 minutes later, had finished reading it was clear that TVA had scored a monumental legal victory...
...This broad Victorian background on the state-of-the-nation and the world gave the part of the speech which Mr. Hirota devoted to China its special weight. Victorians had their devils, and Mr. Hirota did not conceal his horror at the fact that "members of the Communist International have penetrated all classes of the Chinese, destroying the social order of the country and endangering the stability of East Asia!" He found it "most lamentable . . . for the sake of the rest of Asia as a whole, as well as for the people of China" that the Chinese Government of Generalissimo...
Much as Gladstone might have voiced his Liberal compassion for India, Hirota continued: "All Japan wants is that China, taking a broad view of the situation, will collaborate with Japan for the fulfillment of the ideal of Sino-Japanese co-operation for the common prosperity and well-being of the two countries...
Egypt's habitable land is chiefly a cobra-shaped ribbon stretching along the Nile from the broad delta at Alexandria to the narrow rocky cataracts of the Sudan border. Along that green cobra live 16,000,000 people, of whom 2,000,000 last week took advantage of fare reductions to journey to Cairo by train, steamer, felucca, autobus, camel and donkey. They went to celebrate the wedding of Farouk, their 18-year-old king, to Farida, meaning "unique," his 17-year-old Queen...
This week, while Happy Landing played five times a day at Manhattan's 6,000-seat Roxy Theatre, Sonja herself was spending at least 35 minutes a night for five nights in her Hollywood Ice Revue on the broad ice patch of Manhattan's Madison Square Garden (TIME, Jan. 17). From her personal appearances, which began last month in Chicago and will close late next month in Miami on an especially constructed rink, her net earnings will approximate...