Word: narrowness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...American Scene, ingenuously delighted with his first National Convention which he, too, was to report for the New Republic at 2¢ a word. Publisher Henry Goddard Leach of the Forum looked on austerely from a private box. Scripps-Howard Colyumist Heywood Broun settled his flaccid paunch behind a narrow desk, wrote many a witty crack...
...Holcombe who carries the family tradition from lecture platform to the boat house. . .Well intrenched in the cox's seat for three years, at the rope's end, presides Ham Bissell, the only man who can see where the crew is going, and guide it on its straight and narrow path...
...week were in a wracking situation. Since 1908 the State has allowed them to practice on a parity with doctors of medicine. At instigation of the Louisiana State Medical Society (Surgeon Roy Bertrand Harrison, new president)', State Representative Peter A. Hand presented an oppressive bill defining osteopathy in narrow terms. Last week the bill was before the House's judiciary committee...
...born more sophisticated than Blount will ever be, but she loves him for his pink & white good humor, his boyish manliness. When he is sent to Washington as Representative from a backward Southern State, Leda accompanies him, cooks, washes dishes, keeps their flat as homelike as Blount's narrow purse will allow. From a small glass works back home comes all his spending money. Leda fears that Blount's political career will be cramped, his radiant self-assurance dimmed. After a few days in Washington Blount fears...
...total of 151 was extraordinary over the Saunton Club's "joke" course. It is built over sand dunes with eccentrically narrow fairways and little slanted postage-stamp greens. The holes are not long but are often blind. The hazards are waist-high heather, bogs, bulrushes, traps like sand quarries, shore winds...