Word: spaciousness
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...message carried down river by Marine Corps plane. On office days Tommy Holcomb goes home at 4:30 to the Commandant's quarters at Eighth and G Streets Southeast, alongside the Marine Barracks, where Commandants have lived in unbroken succession since the house was built in 1805. Quaint, spacious, fitted with authentic reproductions of its original furnishings, the house is also the centerpiece of one of the Corps' favorite yarns...
...true that Mozart's music is characteristically "happy"; it is only true that there is something in his refined melodic line, in the "abstract" or "pure" form of his composition, which misleads one in that direction. Listen to the A-major piano concerto; to the first movement with its spacious calm and serenity; to the second, with its almost unberable poignancy, probably the nearest Mozart ever got to out-and-out lyricism; and then finally to the third movement, in the true sense of the word "happy," sparkling with fun and humor. Listen to any Mozart, and you will find...
...Indo-China. By exploiting 23,000,000 natives, 28,000 Frenchmen had arranged for themselves an attractive existence, including the extraction of a tidy income from 10,000 tons of opium sold annually to the population under Government license. They had built European towns with broad, immaculate avenues, spacious buildings, beautiful squares adorned with statues of the French great. Beyond the exclusive French quarter, in utmost squalor and poverty, lived the native population, including a great number of half-castes, products of frequent matings between French officials and Annamite girls...
...life. In shirt sleeves, crinkled trousers, bedroom slippers he worked, read, chatted amid a continual clatter of a dozen typists (two days behind on 600 incoming wires and letters per day), incessant callers, whanging telephones (The Broadmoor had to install a special Willkie switchboard). He left his spacious suite (three rooms and a sun porch) just once a day, to swim at 6 a.m. in The Broad-moor's indoor pool...
...Harry Hopkins was well known to every Term III Democrat: it traversed the plush gloom and sombre elegance of the old red-brick Blackstone Hotel; down the red-carpeted marble corridors to a spacious sitting room of candy-striped chairs, a crystal chandelier, a plumed, bustled lady of the English Regency, framed in the pink-&-gilt fireplace, delicately offering all comers a symbolic prize-a prickly rose. In this room operated dapper young Vic Sholis, Hopkins' secretary, and soft-spoken David K. Niles, the Janizariat's undercover man, who engineered the biggest financial coup of the 1936 campaign...