Word: space
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fingers into the triple-tiered keyboard. Later he studied at the Royal Academy, tried to be a composer, but it was not until he was engaged to conduct a series of Promenade Concerts in the new Queen's Hall in 1895 that his name began to command space in the newspapers. It was then considered impossible to play good music for audiences at Promenade Concerts; they wanted to hear Goodbye, Dolly, I Must Leave You, or the airy ballads that squat Dan Leno was yodeling in the Empire Theatre. "But God bless my soul," said Henry J. Wood...
Maneuvering around two grand pianos which took up most of the available floor space of a small Manhattan apartment, a young Jew last week went about the business of packing a suitcase. Old newspapers-the inseparable, useless adjuncts of this operation-lay here and there in crumpled disorder, but two, each containing an item which had been circled with a pencil mark, reposed on a table. The first item related how Composer George Gershwin, famed jazzbo, had recently returned from Europe; the second stated that this Gershwin, when he had finished the piano concerto which Dr. Walter Damrosch has commissioned...
...about the standard international card catalog size; 7.5 x 12.5 cm. (just under 3x5 inches). We all know what a nuisance are the bedquilt Bank of England notes. Our the smaller bed-size is vastly more convenient. If this were again reduced to postal size,, it would still give space 'for all needed printing and would be much quicker in handling, much more compact in money drawers. and safes and, constantly kept flat, would wear five times as The original library card catalog was on ¼ sheets of foolscap. Experience, showed it to be very wasteful of both time...
Perhaps, never in the history of the Chamber has so important a piece of legislation been passed in so short a space of time...
...behind some dogs through a 50-below zero blizzard; a full color reproduction of the aurora borealis. It might have been written with an ice-pick on the bleak wall of an igloo, but its impression of tiny men spinning their confused webs against the icy gulfs of immeasurable space registers effectively...