Word: spaciously
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...MacDonald, 24, buxom, serious, speaking with an even more pronounced Scotch burr than her father, accompanied him. Anxious, she conferred with Cunard officials who were unable to supply an outside cabin on the short notice given them. At that moment appeared Sir Joseph and Lady Duveen who offered their spacious outside cabin. Sir Joseph Duveen (Art Objects) was insistent. Yet soon a Cunard office boy rushed aboard with information that another suitable cabin had been canceled...
Driving through the beautiful country that Dickens so liked, the Pickwick passengers will terminate their tour at The Weld, the Anderson estate in Brookline. Here amid great natural beauty, the picnic in "Pickwick" will be duplicated in the open air theatre on the spacious grounds. Assembled to watch this scene will be many members of the Harvard faculty and the entire membership of the Boston Dickens' Fellowship. Here, old friends like Tony and Sam Weller, the charming, Wardle family, Joe the fat Boy and others in the immortal galaxy will saunter about the grounds as through on the English countryside...
...eventful date!) when the end of the sec-saw bearing the frail Students Association bumped the ground and our rival toppled off the plank altogether, bequeathing in its last gasp its residuaries (all bad bargains) to our committee. This year, then, we found on our hands a spacious Students Room to be maintained and bountifully stocked with chess men and checkers, The American Mercury and perhaps some other magazines of no concern...
...marines and 24 refugees barely managed to gain Socony Hill, under a running fire from Chinese snipers. Marine Plumley alone was wounded, but was able to walk, continuing to return the Chinese fire. At Socony Hall, Mrs. Davis, the other women refugees and the children crowded into a spacious bathroom, lay down on the floor. The children, unconcerned, counted the bullets pinging into Socony Hall. Consul Davis parleyed with the Chinese attackers, buying them off from hour to hour, until those at Socony Hall had no more money. Then said a Chinese: "We don't want money, anyway...
Guglielmo Marconi, Irish-Italian wireless inventor, financier, deftly subdued last week's meeting of petulant stockholders in his Marconi Wireless Telegraph Co. Ltd. The meeting took place in the spacious assembly hall of Connaught Rooms, in London's West End. Signor Marconi presided as chairman of the board of directors...