Word: spaciousness
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...made and we've been making it for a very long time." When the British Travel Association sets out to extol the virtues of British food, the Economist says, "native critics feel distinctly uneasy," for "where would the tourist find that exquisite rare roast beef?" Ads for clean, spacious British Railways carriages are so far from the grubby reality that they "are guaranteed to make any Englishman blush...
...these theaters in "the sticks" have decent dressing rooms and spacious lobbies; most also have bars or restaurants. By contrast, most Broadway houses have creaky stage machinery, dirty, badly ventilated dressing rooms, cramped auditoriums and lobbies, offer no food or drink beyond the usual soapy orange juice. There are some notable exceptions, Aherne concedes, but generally, "Broadway comforts are so poor I am surprised people go to the theater...
Dolphin Rampant. When the Roman legions sailed from Britain, the barbarians who took over had no use for the spacious bathhouses. For centuries Europe remained very nearly dedicated to the proposition that dirtiness is next to godliness. One medieval writer complained about the effeminacy of the Danes, who "used to comb their hair every day, bathed every Saturday and used many other such frivolous means of setting off the beauty of their persons." As late as the 18th century, when residents of Edinburgh threw slops from fifth-floor bedchambers with the cry "Gardy-loo!" (from the French gardez...
...oceanographic big time. He soon moved to Columbia to set up new courses in geophysics. In 1948 the widow of New York Financier Thomas W. Lament left to Columbia her magnificent Hudson River estate. Ewing and his staff moved in. What particularly took Ewing's eye was a spacious underground root cellar (30 ft. by 5° ft) cut in solid bedrock. During the Depression, according to the local story, the Lamonts had stocked it with food to carry them through an expected revolution. Ewing found it an ideal hideaway for his sensitive seismographs...
...aimed at serious young people who are on the brink of important work in art, architecture, literature and classical studies. Carefully culled by seven juries of U.S. experts, who meet annually in Manhattan, the winners each get $3,000 a year, a free room in the Academy and a spacious studio. They can do what they please, and work pleases most of them. Said one admiring academy director: "They work so hard it frightens...