Word: wide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Telephone books, magazines, neck ties, whisk brooms, Victoria records are not unusual contributions to the heterogeneous collection of odds and ends that inevitably finds its way to the P. B. H. van. Uncle Eph and the H. A. A. are forced from competition by the wide appeal and intensity of the annual roundup. Antiques, and unique articles of wearing apparel fascinate those spectators who annually follow with interest the progress of the collection...
People who have visited the Hoovers in or out of the White House realize that Mrs. Hoover's "at-homeness" is not a commonplace quality. It is the product of wide education, travel, association with big-calibre people in many lands. A small-town publisher's wife and a small-town lawyer's wife have been succeeded by a cosmopolite's wife...
...Hello Sucker! Pin back your ears and get a load of the next week's news: Sex, murder, sin, off and on will make you grab those straps on the 8:20 subway tighter and tighter. We aim to thrill, flatter, and admire, so cluster around with the money wide, high, and handsome...
...world-wide news-photo-gathering service was set up, including telephoto transmission...
...engaged in an intermural struggle over "tainted" v. "honest" testimonials. The Better Business Bureau and the Federal Trade Commission have been invited to act as advertising disinfectants. Object of last week's attack, however, was not directly American Tobacco Co., but Merlin Aylesworth's National Broadcasting Co., nation-wide radio chain. Possibly despairing in their endeavor to convince the Lucky Strike makers of the evils of their course, the sugar & calorie forces turned their attention to the broadcasting company as an accessory in the tobacco crime...