Word: spaciousness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Moral Athletes. The essential faith of America came into being in the cold, clearheaded, spacious world of Puritan New England. Authoritarian though theocracy was, moral martinets though they sometimes became, the Puritans sailed their ships into the open seas. They cultivated their moral strength like athletes training, and they used that strength out of doors, in the world, as statesmen and soldiers. "We are still drawing upon the reserves of spiritual vigor which they accumulated...
...Room with a View. In Washington, U.S. Public Health Service officers pondered the request of a law-abiding house wife, living smack on the Vermont-Canadian border, to import her 24-year-old parrot from her cramped Canadian kitchen to her spacious U.S. living room, found that the bird-quarantine laws (effective in 1930) were not retroactive, told her to bring the bird across...
...Gloomy Dean, Britain's Very Rev. W. R. Inge, stepped out of retirement to write a cherrily gloomy piece for London's Evening Standard. His theme: the "Passing of the Country House," that spacious, gracious institution as British as the Marble Arch, mutton pie, or Boxing Day. Wrote Dean Inge...
Tragedy, of a gentle sort, threatens the Smiths when their father (Leon Ames) accepts a business promotion which means their permanent removal to New York. During the later reels of the picture they realize with considerable poignancy just how cherishable the spacious and innocent securities of early 20th-century life in a good provincial city could be. Director Vincente Minelli and his colleagues are so profitably absorbed in such everyday matters that they make only a curtain-bow to the St. Louis Fair...
...Boston Charles B. Rugg, counsel for Admiral Husband E. Kimmel, issued a statement saying that Forrestal's "suggested procedure is a spacious pretext to keep the truth of Pearl Harbor hidden from Dec. 7, 1941 to Nov. 7, 1944. This inconsistent and dilatory procedure is unjust to Admiral Kimmel...