Word: narrowness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...daughter seemed flushed with excitement. Amid cheers they entered the church, he in faultless morning clothes, she in a sleek white satin dress trailing to her ankles, shoulder length white kid gloves, and a superb lace bridal veil the gift of the Italian Senate, this surmounted by a narrow wreath of orange blossoms. Bride Edda's bouquet was an armful of roses white as snowballs...
Gravely, the U. S. Chamber of Commerce went into session in Washington last week for its 18th annual meeting. Gravely because, first quarter over, Business has not started the long march from Depression to Prosperity, merely marks time, seems dazed at its narrow escape from a drop into the sheer chasm of Panic. Well might the businessmen assembled last week have remarked, together with the venerable Commercial & Financial Chronicle: "Verily, trade and business in this country have undergone great shrinkage...
...Joseph in Rome was swathed in bunting and hung with wreaths for the wedding of the Dictator's daughter Edda. Her man is sleek Galeazzo Ciano, son of the Minister of Communications. She can be sleek, prefers to be careless, daredevilish. can drive a car down a narrow street at 70 m. p. h. with as much immunity from Death as her father...
Dean Sperry spoke on the gradual changes in the aims of Phillips Brooks House since it was founded in 1900, discussing in a favoring light the change from the narrow and strictly religious interpretation to the modern attitude of practical social service work. In a general manner he approved the stand taken by Phillips Brooks House in remaining an independent organization forwarding the modern practical interpretation of religious work in the University...
...undergraduate, it seems, wanted to swim on Sunday. Scaling a rear wall, he squeezed through a narrow window, smiled triumphantly...