Word: wide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...position will not take him further than Boston, so that he will still be available for counsel and assistance." Mr. Coolidge said: "The loss of J. R. Hamlen's active service as secretary of the Alumni Association is a great loss to graduates and undergraduates alike. With his wide acquaintance, his keen understanding of academic problems, and his untiring energy and devotion to Harvard, he has made himself indispensable as a link between the past and the present of the University. We all will miss him here and we all wish him equal success in the new engagements...
...seeks to enter the Hamburg Guild of Journeymen Carpenters, he faces harsh Medieval tribulations, searching tests. After suitable apprenticeship he must wander about Germany, carpentering, for three years. As a full-fledged member of the Journeymen's Guild, the proud young Hamburger wears a broad, black hat, extra wide black trousers, and heavy gold earrings. He may even go to Berlin, once in five years, for a jolly convention, and there get into trouble-as a great many Hamburger Guildsmen did last week. Dishonest young Berliners-sneakthieves and bandy-legged pimps-aspire to the Ever Loyal Club. In discreet...
...last week. All the famed trustees* of the cathedral held their backs to the door and feigned guileless smiles, but the hollow knock of femur and tibia was audible to many observers, and while the skeleton clanked, a lone goat roamed disconsolately out of the cathedral close into the wide, wide world, and that was young Rev. Joseph B. Bernardin, who, until last week, was assistant to the cathedral's dean and instructor in the choir school...
Eight years later Father William died. In the hands of executors he left a sealed envelope. It was solemnly torn open. Inside was the name of Brother Bramwell, nominated General of the world-wide tambourine Army in dynastic succession to Father William...
There are fine scenes, fine moments in the play. The third act set, a huge room which suggests the wide staircases and the servants' hall behind it, has a dark, archaic grandeur...