Word: broads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...poem is concerned with the variously-named demigod or "spirit of the year"-e.g., Zeus, son of Rhea . . . who in early European religious theory was at first wholly subject to his all-powerful variously-named Virgin Mother. As Europë, "Broad-face" (her full-moon title), she named this...
...Dennis was the cynosure among the other ten Communists on trial with him. He was surrounded by an aura of mystery. According to the party's carefully manufactured legend, he had come out of the lumber camps of the Northwest. At first glance he looked the part-big, broad-shouldered, ruddy and impressive. At second glance he turned out to be a puffy, tweedy, middle-aged man with fluffy grey hair, a small, uncertain mouth and plump, pink cheeks...
Last week Dr. Abbot laid himself wide open to pooh-poohs by all professional weather forecasters. Like the almanac makers, he had made some broad weather forecasts, and he had projected them a full year ahead...
...Bride of Vengeance (Paramount) is a murky 15th Century brother& -sister act involving Cesare and Lucrezia Borgia (Macdonald Carey and Paulette Goddard) and Lucrezia's latest husband (John Lund). As history, it is elaborate Hollywood spoofing. As melodrama, it is constantly toppling into broad burlesque...
...Broad jump--Won by Benesh (RIS); 2, Sherman (RIS); 3, Stallman (RIS). Distance...