Word: spaciousness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grew older she grew fatter, even more conscientious. She gave up hunting and riding, took to the bicycle. She made it a daily rule to rise at 6 a.m., usually beginning her royal chores with an hour's work in the spacious garden at the back of the Palace. Nowadays, once a week the Queen receives her Ministers, and woe be to him who does not know his subject well. The Queen has been so long at her job that she can ask the most difficult questions; when a Minister cannot answer them he is told to study...
Ryder compared himself to an inchworm revolving at the end of a twig, but for all his groping indecision his moonlit fantasies are spacious and simple in design. They reflect his eccentricities (he once proposed marriage to a neighbor the first time he met her because he liked the tone of her violin), his essentially happy life, spent doing what he most wanted to do. "The artist," Ryder once said, "needs but a roof, a crust of bread and his easel, and all the rest God gives him in abundance...
...clear cool afternoon, Tuesday, August 4, 1914, a grave, spare, rather homely North Carolinian entered the courtyard before the massive grey British Foreign Office on Downing Street. He turned to the right, passed the guards, walked down a broad ornate corridor, passed through a large oak door into a spacious room. Its windows looked out on the tranquil lake and lawn and trees of St. James's Park. The clocks of London struck three...
...that made by St. Hilary of Poitiers, many centuries ago, when he spoke of a contemporary Buchmanite, so to speak, as having "an irreligious solicitude for God." St. Hilary went on to explain that an observer of the cosmic processes soon learns that the Almighty has His own spacious way of doing things, and that often He plans to take many thousands of years to accomplish some far-reaching purposes. . . . Cannot one venture to conclude, accordingly, that even Herr Buchman and his projected 100,000,000 adherents are not likely to stampede Jehovah into a general upset of His vast...
...Manhattan last week the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation emerged from abstraction to reality in the shape of an elegant, three-story, glassy gallery on East 54th Street. Through every spacious room amplifiers sent the moping or striding music of Bach; the walls were pure white and velvety grey, and on them were displayed 415 items from the Guggenheim collection. Predominant types: the whorls, jackstraws and disembodied eyelashes of Russian Vasily Kandinsky; the massive, machinelike color patterns of French Fernand Léger; the planetary balls and bubbles, interlocking triangles and color spots of German Rudolf Bauer. It was the biggest...