Word: spaciousness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From dusty Nanking streets, sleek limousines converged on a plain brick residence in the spacious Ministry of National Defense compound. It was Friday afternoon; by 2 o'clock Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's small drawing room was jammed with ranking Kuomintang officials. Tense and silent, they waited for the announcement...
...could see, the college president of today was little more than a salesman who "scurries around the country seeking the company of rich widows . . . One gathers the irrefutable impression that the item of major concern ... is not the maturing of the individual . . . but buildings, large, spacious, attractive buildings . . . classrooms with all the new gadgets . . . dormitories with slick, shining, slithering bathrooms . . . The ethics of the counting house . . . too often replace the higher standards common once in education...
...Genius. Since no one showed him any angels, he painted gleaming seascapes in which one could almost whiff the salt air, and landscapes like Landscape at Ornans (see cut) that were solid and spacious enough to be mistaken for windows on reality. Well-pleased with himself, he did at least a dozen self-portraits. One, entitled Fortune Saluting Genius, showed him with a wealthy patron...
Designer Geddes was so convincing that Schine last week announced plans to spend upwards of $10 million, under Geddes' direction, doing over the hotel and making it more than double its present size. Items: spacious (25-by-21-ft.) rooms with two baths and a balcony, a roof swimming pool with a beach of washable rubber-composition sand. On the six city blocks of empty land that surround the present building, Geddes and Architect Paul Williams, who is collaborating on the plan, will build 500 bungalows connected by a tunnel system to the hotel room service...
...Silver Whistle (by Robert McEnroe; produced by the Theatre Guild) tells how a spacious liar and accomplished charlatan rejuvenates an old folks' home. A 47-year-old hobo, Oliver Erwenter (José Ferrer) poses as a superbly virile codger of 77 and passes out to the men folk a magical aphrodisiac (actually, small bread pellets). He tells lordly yarns of foreign travel and female conquest; makes flamboyant love to a young lady employed at the home; and with a bit of help, swipes the equipment and supplies for a rousing charity bazaar. Though the truth about him gradually leaks...