Word: spaciousness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week in Manhattan an art organization founded by rebels held one of the most conservative shows of the season. The occasion: the 52nd annual exhibition of the National Association of Women Artists. On view in spacious 57th Street galleries were art forms ranging from garden sculpture to decorative embroidery, woodcut print to oil painting. Most popular subjects: flowers, children, landscape views, sculptured nudes...
High above the river the big stone-and-stucco mansion house stood in its park, dignified, comfortable, a little shabby. Trees, paths, lawns and gardens, groomed carefully by five generations of gardeners, looked dull now in the winter tag-end. But inside the spacious mansion at Hyde Park there was warmth and gayety, perhaps in the flowered cretonne drawing-room-where afternoon coffee is a daily ritual...
Eugene O'Neill revealed that he had sold his spacious, white-walled "Tao House"-across the bay from San Francisco. "I have to go East on business, but this has nothing to do with the theater," said the playwright, who during his seven year seclusion at "Tao House" (with his third wife, exactress Carlotta Monterey) has been struggling against a recurring ailment to complete his cycle of seven plays: A Tale of Possessors Self-Dispossessed. No comment by O'Neill was reported on the news that a child was expected in August by his 18-year-old daughter...
...labor battalions run by the British as reciprocal aid to U.S. forces. Others dug new babai pits, rebuilt palm-frond huts, hauled in fish beyond the coral reefs. At night, whenever they could borrow a lamp from British resident officers, they danced on the pebbled floors of their spacious, thatched meetinghouses...
...Warrens changed the mansion into a gleaming monument to the gingerbread era in American architecture, filled its spacious, high-ceilinged rooms with rollicking laughter which had not been heard there for decades. The Warren family is self-sufficient. The Governor and his wife (the former Mrs. Nina Palmquist Meyers, a widow, whom he married in 1925) have never entertained much. Mrs. Warren explains: "I had five children in six years, and you can't do much entertaining then...