Word: wide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rudely chucked under the chin last week by Socialist-Sophist Upton Sinclair of Pasadena, who announced the publication of an allegedly humorous political satire entitled The Spokesman's Secretary: Being the Letters of Mame to Mom. Stenographer Mame reports the antics of -"the greatest Man in the whole wide world" astride an electric "camelephant" (exercise machine) and how she tells him what to tell newsgatherers to tell the people to think. Author Sinclair's announcement betrayed lame borrowings from Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, moronese novelette by Author Anita Loos...
...normal heart is shaped like an acorn. It is somewhat larger than a clenched fist. On the average it is 5 in. long 3½ in. wide, 2 in. thick. Hearts of men weigh 8 to 10 oz., hearts of women 2 oz. less...
...farmers in the world. Their co-operative enterprise covers both the production and distribution of farm products as well as the manufacture of such products as condensed milk, butter, bacon and other pork derivatives. It attends to its own financing, marketing and exporting. The organization functions on a nation-wide basis. The middleman is absolutely eliminated...
Many a Spaniard was vexed at Dictator Primo's exalted connivance at providing Abd-el-Krim with opulent support for life on a balmy isle 45 miles long, 32 wide and only 380 miles off the coast of Madagascar. At Madrid the slogan, "Hamstring Abd-el-Krim!" has long attained a popularity rivaling the no-longer-touted, "Hang the Kaiser...
Bermuda Railway The Bermudas, isles of onions, Easter lilies, lyric grottoes and healing sunshine, has never heard the honking rattle of an automobile or the clank of a chuffing train. But Great Bermuda, the largest of the islands is 14 miles long, 1 mile wide. Hack horses and bicycles simply cannot keep up the pace, either of today's onion industry or of modern fashions in holiday-making. Last week, after a 50-year struggle with transportation, the islanders announced that they would have, not automobiles to bury the scenery in pulverized coral from the roads, but a discreet...