Word: wide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...understood in Britain ("Mother of Parliaments") would almost instantly be achieved. Last week Senator Borah strode down the dusty streets of Boisé, capital of Idaho, as if a blaring band marched at his van. People applauded, tipped their hats to him; occasionally he nodded. Leather-jowled man of wide spaces and deep thinking, Senator Borah builds no theatre for his distant capital as does Senator Warren (see p. 9) at his;- his own personality provides dramatic catharsis...
...proper, must still be worn with the alb. It has long, loose, open sleeves, a gathered yolk at the neck, and drops to the knees like the skin of a ribless umbrella. Stole. A narrow strip of embroidered work nine or ten feet long and about three inches wide. A stole supposedly tallies with its alb in design and coloring. The Bishop of London wears his stole between his alb and his tunicle. The spangles across his chest supply the illusion of the cross. It signifies a yoke. In the Eastern Church instead of being a strip, the stole...
...Britisher in a blue suit and a wide-brimmed panama hat tore screaming along the ship's rail- leapt, climbed, jostled dignified bankers, evaded pursuit. "Mon-key!" "Monkey!" screamed passengers. "MONKEY!" The Hon. John Jacob Astor ran to his mother, clambered into her lap. He is aged seven. Last week photographers snapped busily Lady Nancy Astor, onetime Virginia beauty, first woman member of the British Parliament, here on her second U. S. visit. She was "traveling incognito," she said, looking admiringly at her 17-year-old Phyllis, who did look well. Michael, aged ten, shuffled against the Hon. John...
...state in all Africa. There human slavery still flourishes. There the most trifling jubilation provides an excuse for tearing out the entrails of a living cow, that they may be gorged raw by old and young, washed down with brimming cups of mese (mead) or bousa (beer). A yard- wide French-operated railway climbs from French Jibuti on the Gulf of Aden 500 miles inland to Addis Ababa, the capital of Abyssinia. From this glorified dung hill, seat of an Imperial House which claims descent from the biblical Queen of Sheba, a formal protest reached the Secretariat of the League...
...light bulbs; at Black Mountain near Asheville, N. C., of heart disease. He brought together a score of struggling makers of lamps 25 years ago and took them into the National Electric Light Association; developed Nela Park, Cleveland, into the "University of Light" whose diplomas are esteemed far and wide; instituted a sales system which puts dealers into such eager competition that they are practically rationed with lamps; made MAZDA a household word...