Word: spaciousness
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...privacy of his own bedroom. In Andrew Jackson's day, the public had free access to all parts of the White House. According to one account of Jackson's Inauguration Day: "High and low, old and young, black and white, poured in one solid column into this spacious mansion. Here was the corpulent epicure grunting and sweating for breath-the dandy wishing he had no toes-and the office seeker." On Jackson's first Inauguration Day, more than 20,000 people poured in, breaking thousands of dollars worth of furniture and crockery, raiding the pantry, spilling punch...
...from the public gaze as the vast, subterranean oil pools on which his huge fortune was built. Gulbenkian, a square, bald man of medium height and undistinguished mien, liked it that way. "I have only one friend," he said once, "and his name is solitude." Last week, in the spacious, ornate Lisbon hotel suite where he lived since 1942, Calouste Gulbenkian, 86, slipped quietly out of the world of the living, still grasping the hand of his only friend...
...decorate its spacious social rooms, the opera ordered 13 new Gobelin tapestries. Not that there is a shortage of tapestries in Vienna-there are hundreds lying around in vaults-but museum officials refused to let any go. "First thing you know," said a grumpy museum spokesman, "people will be rubbing their cigarettes out on them." It hardly seems likely. For, in the words of the Metropolitan's Rudolf Bing, a Viennese himself, "The Vienna Opera means to the Viennese what women mean to Don Giovanni. It is the air they breathe, the food they eat, and the girl they...
Because of its southerly exposure and spacious floor plan, the dormitory almost at once became the most desirable of college residences. Seniors occupied Holworty exclusively for the next fifty years, and in 1873 there were 500 applications for the seven available rooms. The vacancies were filled by lot, and one instance is recorded of a student selling his Holworthy priority for a $150 bonus. But such immense popularity was not destined to last; by 1900, private baths, electric lights, and other luxuries had drawn wealthy students to the private Gold Coast houses on Mt. Auburn Street. Holworthy became "just another...
...Cordiale. His muddled pursuit of one of his uncle's favorite foreign-policy dreams led to the unification of Italy. He gave France its first legal trade unions and old-age pensions. Above all, his determination to give Paris a Napoleonic splendor resulted in the city's spacious boulevards...