Word: spaciousness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ground floor of the White House there is a big room lined with large, locked, glass-fronted bookcases. This is the White House Library. Spacious but bare, it has only a few hundred books on the white-framed shelves designed to hold almost 2,000. Last week a committee representing the American Booksellers Association carried to Washington 200 more volumes for the great open spaces on the White House shelves-a collection of 34 biographies...
...Stop New York (Gaumont British) shows what the transatlantic airliner of the apparently near future may be like. "A" deck will have spacious cabins with wardrobes big enough for blonde stowaways like Anna Lee to hide in, "hurricane" decks from which trapped villains may escape, providing scissor-minded child prodigies like Desmond Tester have not been tampering with the parachutes. In the "B" deck dining salon gourmets from Scotland Yard (like John Loder) may have their Martinis mixed, not shaken, and may pick at turbot after having had a try at some clear soup, probably terrapin. The fare will...
...reminiscence written ten years after Pyle's death he described Pyle's summer art classes "working in the spacious and grain-scented rooms'' of the mill studio. "To recall the unceasing soft rush of water as it flowed over the huge, silent wheel beneath us thrills me through." This capacity for simple, lush feeling is one of the qualities which have enabled Wyeth to score even more imaginative knockouts on Christmas book readers than his teacher. In 30 years he has done illustrations for 24 juvenile classics for Scribner's alone, some 500 color paintings...
...passport holders living within the militia-guarded walls of the spacious, 40-roomed American Embassy in Madrid have eaten few delicacies during the last 15 months, but have nevertheless enjoyed an abundance of rich milk, fresh eggs, even non-rancid olive oil-items generally missing from the present Madrid cuisine. The American newsmen, Filipinos, Puerto Ricans now residents of the once ducal palace have to thank no U. S. diplomatic or consular representative for these wholesome victuals, but Captain Frank William Cannaday, a gloomy, stubborn Virginian who fought in the Spanish-American War and prospected for gold in Venezuela before...
...whose trade they live. Old and young art dealers were perking up despite the torpor of the stock market. Julien Levy, the introducer of Surrealist Salvador Dali (TIME, Dec. 14 et ante), pioneer in many a modern artist of fashion, announced the removal of his gallery into more spacious quarters on 57th Street. Meanwhile private and public galleries carried on with the last few weeks of their summer shows, adding here and there a room of new stuff...