Word: vast
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...weeks ago, one of Mussolini's newspapers complained: "Mrs. Roosevelt writes too much . . . is a bad influence." From Italy's viewpoint, she surely is, for she cultivates vast areas of political soil plowed and sowed by her husband. Yet in saying, "I have taken no part in politics since Franklin's election" she is not wholly inaccurate. She operates quite apart from the President, behind and beneath what is commonly called "politics." Stories that she influences his policies and appointments are as untrue as stories that he tries to edit her conduct. She is a one-woman...
...Manhattan's vast Radio City Music Hall (movie palace), elaborate stage shows are put on by its super-goose-stepping Rockettes (chorus girls). Last week for the sixth year in a row the Music Hall staged a special Easter spectacle...
Light from blue-&-red stained-glass windows shone on a flower-banked altar. A yellowish glow lit a dozen show-girl Madonnas, each in a vast brocaded mantle, each in prayerful attitude before a golden sunburst resembling a sacred monstrance. Bearing candles, a procession of choristers in blue-&-white robes of ecclesiastical cut took their stand along the walls, and burst into song. One of the Madonnas, picked out by a spotlight, sang a contralto solo. Then the beautifully trained Rockettes-coiffed like nuns, wearing satiny white habits, carrying bunches of lilies-deployed across the cathedral-like set, lined...
Birmingham. Author Leighton likes Birmingham, Ala. least of his five cities. City of unkept promise, he calls it, with vast natural resources and the lowest per capita public expenditure of any big U. S. city-near the bottom in appropriations for education and public health, near the top in its murder rate. Author Leighton's explanation of its unkept promise: racial conflict, absentee ownership...
...confesses to being scared of heights and crowds until she gets her head under the black cloth. Her dizziest shots are nevertheless sharp, hard and sense-making, though her best are meditative portraits of comely, plain old buildings, dingy shop fronts, chapfallen façades selected from the vast 19th-Century underbrush among Manhattan's skyscrapers...