Word: spaciousness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...feasts of the Lord Mayor of London are an established British institution. At them highly placed British officials are traditionally supposed to say something very important. Last week Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain made the two-mile journey across London from Downing Street to the financial district and, in the spacious Egyptian Hall of Mansion House, addressed "my Lord Mayor" and his 600 guests. The Prime Minister did not talk about the war; he talked all around the war, making an amiable goodwill tour among those whom Great Britain wants to have on her side...
...garden than preside over a Cabinet meeting. Sir Edward Grey liked birds more than diplomatic reports. Lord Halifax once said with evident truth: "I would rather be a Master of Foxhounds than Prime Minister." That is natural, for Edward Wood grew up outdoors on his father's spacious estate at Garrowby, Yorkshire, where he learned to ride as soon as to walk. His pious father, the second Viscount Halifax, was for 60 years the leader of the High Church party whose never realized dream was to reunite the Church of England with the Church of Rome...
Caroline of England, subtitled An Augustan Portrait, is the story of the smooth-bosomed, strong-minded Princess of Brandenburg-Anspach who married George Augustus of Hanover (George II) and contrived to rule him and England in the spacious years 1727-37. Peter Quennell's biography of Caroline is the second to appear within the last six months. Less formal than the first, Caroline of Anspach by R. L. Arkell (TIME, Aug. 7) it is actually less a history of the queen than an able and entertaining study of the society in which she moved...
...insurance man named William M. Drennon as City Manager. Thus estopped in his valiant efforts to clean up dirty Kansas City, little (5 feet, 5½ inches) Mayor Smith resigned. "Hell," said he, "it makes me hot just to think of it." Flap-jowled Mr. Drennon coolly surveyed his spacious new office, announced that he proposed to cooperate with "the efficient remains of the machine," comfortably added: "I like good living. . . . This place suits me fine...