Word: narrowness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Budget. Promptly at 3:21 p. m. Edward of Wales, having climbed the narrow stair in the House of Commons to the Peers' gallery, entered smiling and took the seat from which H. R. H. hears all budget speeches, the seat directly behind the clock...
...wish I felt at liberty to name the single family of many members, with separate homes whose early purchases bridged the narrow margin between success and failure." Last week his son, rotund Robert Macbeth, admitted that they were the Pratts of Long Island. Other important collectors were persuaded to buy U. S. art by soft-spoken William Macbeth: Miss Lizzie Bliss, Hotelman Edwin A. McAlpin, Hugh D. Auchincloss, Financier Stephen V. Harkness. Collector Emerson McMillan had such a passion for pictures that he used to come in with a little red notebook and demand...
...accepting a beauty contest judgeship from Syracuse University Artist Flagg declared: "All sorts of colleges every year do this to me . . . and I have had to gaze on some of the most god-awful female mugs in this broad tho' narrow land. . . ." -ED. Chaunk v. Chomp...
...Legs") Diamond, was dropped from the bill of Billy Watson's burlesque show when it reached Paterson, N. J. Protested Actress Diamond : "My theatrical act teaches a great moral lesson - everyone, young and old, who sees it realizes that crime is futile and that the old straight and narrow path is the only one to follow." J. Malcolm Crim, onetime poor store keeper of Kilgore, Tex. who was made rich and elected first mayor of his town after oil was struck on his mother's farm (TIME. Feb. 2, 1931), told a newsman in Manhattan...
Professor Reck took the Oldoway man home to Berlin where he examined the find in detail. Oldoway stood 5 ft. 10½ in. He had long legs and a long narrow head. His nose was big, his upper lip long, his jaw and chin massive. He looked like many a Hamite still to be seen in Northeastern Africa. To Professor Reck, Oldoway's lower teeth seemed filed to points, a fashion current among certain living African tribes...