Word: narrowness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fayette but you still owe a debt to yourselves and to the nation." President Hoover smiled. There was no Hoover-Coolidge hobnobbing. After the Legion speech he proceeded with traffic difficulty to the Hotel Statler where an adulant crowd hustled the President and Mrs. Hoover through the narrow lobby. In the turmoil four policemen gave the "bum's rush" to an officious fellow. He was O. L. Bodenheimer, National Commander of the Legion...
...House committee members seemed dazed by the intricacies of grain trading as described by Broker Bache, who denied that the Soviet sales were large enough to affect the pit price, explained that if Russia had wanted to manipulate the world price, it would have sold short in a narrow market such as Liverpool rather than on the world's biggest at Chicago...
There is some good music written by Sigmund Rombert and in one song? "Pizarro Was a Very Narrow Man"? Irving Caesar has turned out a rollicking lyric. The book, by Otto Harbach, is usually plausible...
...follow a student resident in one of the Houses through his day's routine. He wakes on the narrow iron bedstead of his private chamber in one of those delightful little suites, bathes under the shower in the bathroom which he shares with his roommate if the suite is double. He can dress besides an open fire in his study (though all the rooms are steam heated) and if the weather is stormy he can, by descending into the basement, walk to the dining hall from any room in the House without going out of doors. He may breakfast...
...Deny interview as stated. I quoted a French philosopher on three escapes from reality, but said it is better to love intensely than lead a sterile narrow life. I did not say mix the three, but said work is the best outlet. Do what you can to correct. I said man employs three escapes, but I had abiding faith that he would find constructive rather than destructive escapes...