Word: narrowness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bassanios. Miss Royle being a very lovely young woman in her own right, she plays her part with such sensitive appreciation that she very adequately balances Mr. Moscovitch. It seems to be the intention of the producers to emphasize only one star, but Miss Royle happily prevents such a narrow intent from becoming real...
...were being swept away in what, accurately or not, was being called all over the country an Anti-Administration landslide. There had been bound to be some reaction from the Hoover landslide of 1928. Every one had expected the Senate to have six or eight more Democrats in it, narrowing the already narrow Administration margin there and redoubling the Insurgents' balance-of-power. But that the Administration's control of the House should be seriously threatened was unforeseen, unnerving...
From what was a "peasant's house" d'Annunzio created an exotic mansion and a shrine to genius (his). Its courtyard is the Piazza di Sospiri ("Palace of Sighs") because so many have waited there whom he has refused to see. The only entrance to his garden is too narrow for a fat man to pass, but the slender poet slips through easily. As a garden ornament the Italian Government erected at huge expense the entire forepart and bridge of the battleship Puglia, complete with searchlights and a working gun turret. Here Signore d'Annunzio fires eccentric salutes when...
Senator Wesley Livsey Jones was driving placidly home to his ranch near Wenatchee, Wash, one day last week when on a narrow road his automobile confronted another from the opposite direction. He stopped as the other car, unable to pass, ran into a bank. Two youngsters jumped out of it, fled up into the bushes. Behind them came speeding a third machine out of which jumped two more men with revolvers. Senator Jones in open-mouthed wonder, watched them also disappear into the bushes, heard shots. Soon they emerged with the runaways, one of whom was wounded. Senator Jones...
Around the sanctuary well is a narrow passageway between curved railings, the railing nearest the congregation serving as a communion table. Communion on the lower level is given at the altar rail below the high altar. On the lower level in crypts underneath Washington Boulevard's sidewalks and in niches are two side altars in marble, a complete set of Stations of the Cross, four shrines, four confessionals. Concealed organ loft and choir stalls are at balcony level on either side of the sanctuary. In the ceiling are an echo organ, a swell organ. Acoustics, at first feared, were last...