Word: spaciousness
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...marines and 24 refugees barely managed to gain Socony Hill, under a running fire from Chinese snipers. Marine Plumley alone was wounded, but was able to walk, continuing to return the Chinese fire. At Socony Hall, Mrs. Davis, the other women refugees and the children crowded into a spacious bathroom, lay down on the floor. The children, unconcerned, counted the bullets pinging into Socony Hall. Consul Davis parleyed with the Chinese attackers, buying them off from hour to hour, until those at Socony Hall had no more money. Then said a Chinese: "We don't want money, anyway...
Guglielmo Marconi, Irish-Italian wireless inventor, financier, deftly subdued last week's meeting of petulant stockholders in his Marconi Wireless Telegraph Co. Ltd. The meeting took place in the spacious assembly hall of Connaught Rooms, in London's West End. Signor Marconi presided as chairman of the board of directors...
...Latin vespers' chant rose majestic and sonorous. Notre Dame seemed every moment less a church of man, and more the infinite, spacious House of God. Then Paul Claudel was suddenly upon his knees. . . . "Alors se produisit," he has said, "I'événement qui domine tout ana vie. This, of all my life, was the dominant moment. My heart was touched. Je crus-I believed! . . . Blinding, ineffable, had come the revelation. I had realized the heart-rending innocence, the eternal childhood...
...curtains and costumes have so filled the club rooms in Ridgely Annex that it has been next to impossible to hold meetings there. This condition however, has been remedied; through the kindness of Professor Francke, Professor Emeritus and Honorary Curator of the Germanic Museum, and the University authorities, the spacious basement of the Germanic Museum have been placed at the disposal of the Club. Here will be prepared the sets for the coming production in modern dress and action of Shakespeare's "Taming of the Shrew...
...Woodrow Wilson: "After six years' retirement from social life and after several pilgrimages to Europe, I am again active in Washington functions. I have not yet reconciled myself to going where political enemies of my husband gather. Friends have been urging me to re-open by spacious home and begin entertaining. Occasionally I am seen as the dinner partner of Senator David Ignatius Walsh of Massachusetts...