Word: wide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...false Billy whom Margaret loves after Dion is dead, and the third Billy, who has been amassing wealth during the real Billy's period of despair, the players are provided with masks, which they clap on and whisk off as their personalities exchange ascendancy. Productive of a wide gamut of emotions and effective for about half of the 13 scenes, this trickery becomes a dizzying harlequinade at the last. Leona Hogarth (Margaret) and William Harrigan (Billy Brown) cope very successfully with their strenuous parts, both masked and unmasked. Anne Shoemaker is bravely understanding in the all but unstageable mask...
...very likable, studied hard, reasoned clearly. His superiors liked him; soon, in 1877, made him professor of philosophy at the Petit Seminaire in the see of Malines the seat of Archbishop Goossens. For five years there he educated youths; taught them with kindliness, perspicacity, sympathy. He gained besides a wide reputation, a wide influence...
...column called "Contributors' Gallery," thus summarized the importance of Mr. Seitz's position J "Don C. Seitz was for 25 years business manager of the New York World. Probably there is no man in American journalism that has as broad an experience as a journalist and as wide an acquaintance among newspaper men. He knows at first hand all phases of American life; he has, too, a historical background against which to view the present scene in its proper proportion." Now the News writer, looking for some item on which he could compose an editorial that would entertain...
Although Japan's latest franchise law, just promulgated, barks back to the nineteenth century, the Reform Bills of 1832 and 1867, and the plebiscites of Napoleon III, it serves as a reminder that Japan still copies. She now has most of Europe's political features, a constitution, militarism, world-wide diplomacy, and universal suffrage. She has amply proved her descriptive trilogy, "adept, adopt, adapt...
...though Mr. Cook's regime was typified by the Lampoon at hand. We have bull-baitings and yokel-bumpings aplenty to testify to the enterprise characteristic to the board for the last year. Certainly no issue of any college humorous publication ever attracted the nation-wide attention secured by the famous suppressed edition of last spring, nor were the gendarmerie of any community ever so satisfactorily exposed as were the copys of Cambridge upon that memorable occasion...