Word: spans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...days when tradition made it obligatory for U. S. honeymooners to go to Niagara Falls, they did their most effective mooning at the local Wonder of the World from 1,248-ft. Falls View Bridge. Closest to the falls of the three bridges that span the Niagara River in that area, it was something of a wonder itself. It trembled in the wind, shook under heavy loads, but for 39 years managed to keep from crashing into the 200-ft. canyon below...
...admitted, however, that the historical works turned out by Hollywood are not always the acme of accuracy, since action covering a span of years is often telescoped into a week or so of movie action...
...chipmunks, birds, horny turtles, and a big-eyed, bangtailed buck. Joyously they lead Snow White to a slovenly little hut they know of. When the dwarfs who own the hut return from their day's work in the diamond mine, they are alarmed to find their hovel spick-&-span...
...symbolic habitation and a name to two great elements of 20th-century English upper-class society, he called one "Heartbreak House" and the other "Horseback Hall." Last week in Washington, an exhibition at the new branch gallery of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art showed the spick & span art of Horseback Hall as it was in its far from heartbroken heyday in the 19th Century. Among 60 pictures, most of them hunting and racing scenes, were examples by such eminent specialists as Henry Alken, Benjamin Marshall and the stagecoach driver, John Frederick Herring, favorite of George IV and Queen...
...England, St. Paul's Cathedral and the Bank of England are no more fixed institutions than the London Times. But last week the Times moved. Funereal Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain punched a shiny newspaper press button, formally opened a spick & span Times printing annex which precedes the re-placement of the whole group of grim historic buildings around dingy Printing House Square, a block from the sluggish Thames in "the City...