Word: spaciousness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when Minister Lyttelton returned to his spacious, robin's-egg-blue office on the third floor of the Ministry of Production, he found his assistants milling around in consternation. The interpolated words, cabled to the U.S., had practically exploded in Washington. The shock was all the greater because numerous British experts in both the U.S. and Britain had slaved to gather material to make the speech a convincing show of U.S.-British good will, with accent on reverse Lend-Lease. Several versions of the speech were cabled back and forth, checked down to the last word. Minister Lyttelton promptly...
Life in X-House. In Britain today Spaatz's private life consists mainly of the four to eight hours he sleeps nightly in the spacious, big-windowed bedroom of "X-House," a comfortable, 19th-Century brick pile in a London suburb. There, as he did in Africa, he leads a kind of corporate, family existence, with his staff as family, and himself as patriarch, straw boss and referee...
...letters home from captured British and other Allied airmen pictured Stalag Luft III as one of the best prison camps in Germany. The barracks squatted in a spacious clearing among the pine woods northeast of Dresden. The prisoners had a chapel, library, playing field and garden. They lazed through a 9 a.m. to 11 p.m. day. They took walks, naps, sun baths. They had rugby and cricket matches. They attended lectures (science, languages, history, elocution). The food was heavy on soup and potatoes, but Red Cross parcels and afternoon tea kept British spirits up. Last March 22, Stalag Luft...
From his London hotel window South Africa's Prime Minister can look across Hyde Park's greensward-too sleek and flat for one who loves to walk the rough sandstone of Table Mountain or the undulant, spacious land of the Transvaal. He breakfasts at leisure, on gift eggs from egg-rationed English friends. He listens to the radio's news, scans the Times, attends to cables and correspondence. By 10 o'clock he is ready for visitors in his big bay-windowed reception room. By n he has changed his slippers, buttoned up his red-tabbed...
...Hellman; produced by Herman Shumlin) gave Broadway its first really provocative drama of the season. Unlike Playwright Hellman's The Children's Hour, The Little Foxes, Watch on the Rhine, her The Searching Wind is not predominantly taut, violent, intense. Its span is long and its world spacious, though the action itself is too crowded at times. Playwright Hellman has pitched a handful of lives into the swirling history of our age. Her ominous little Washington dinner party of today not only resolves a puzzling 22-year-old triangle story; it audits the conduct of an irresolute career...