Word: spaciousness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...morning last week the House Judiciary Committee assembled to ponder the Patman charges, to see if they warranted action by the whole House. In the spacious mahogany-trimmed committee room was held a field day for Texans. Congressman Patman prosecuted Mr. Mellon; Alexander White Gregg, Texas-born son of a deceased Texas Congressman, defended Mr. Mellon. Congressman Hatton Sumners of Dallas, Judiciary chairman, presided as judge. Notably absent was Mr. Mellon who at that precise moment was appearing down the corridor before the Ways & Means Committee with his plan for tax-upping...
Errett Cord has been married twice, has three children. Two sons, 16 and 14, are by his first wife who died in 1930. Nine weeks ago his second wife bore a daughter. The Cords spend much time in California where, at Beverly Hills, they are building a spacious new house, and when in Chicago they live in a penthouse. At one time they had twelve automobiles. Now Errett Cord has cut down to a Duesenburg (two years old), a Cord and two Auburns. He hates society, does not go on weekend parties often because it is too hard...
...problem before the competitors is of an unusual nature. The task is to draw up plans for a new White House, a spacious presidential residence on Analostan Island in the Potomac, opposite the Lincoln Memorial, on the supposition, suggested by government officials that the old residence be used for a historical museum. The competitors are 'given' a building, which they can place on the island in any position they choose. Guest houses, garages and other outhouses are left to the competitors consideration...
...striking contrast to the plentiful means of the Oxford equivalent. The physical equipment of the Oxford Union has no counterpart here. The Library of the English society is considerably larger than that in Eliot House. The walls are covered with murals by Rossetti, and other rooms in the spacious buildings are decorated on the same scale...
Living in a spacious house close by the much smaller one in which they spent their runaway honeymoon, the Ludwigs now share it with their two children, many borzois and greyhounds. Frau Ludwig helps her husband in research, tells him many a home-truth about the work in progress. Ludwig's mind is especially active while he is shaving. If he has cut himself several times his wife asks: "Did you have an idea, then...