Word: wide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Jersey, possibly as a sympathetic reaction from the New York excitement, the Rev. Marna S. Poulson, Anti-Salooner, announced that Newark was "wide open," especially as to gambling in Newark's Chinatown...
...Impressions and Comments. Nineteen-year-old Ellis, distressed by his own patchy understanding of the complicated sex impulse, vowed he would save other youth from similar distress, and devoted his life to elucidation. With this end always in mind, his studies ranged from ten years' medical practice to wide reading of philosophy, history, and fiction, recorded in his six volumes of annotated quotations-Taine, Swinburne, Flaubert, Strauss, Voltaire, Boccaccio, Whitman...
Chrysler Corp. has gone into the low-priced field with the throttle wide open. Item A: the new Plymouth, a four-cylinder car, with Silver-Dome high-compression engine which uses any gasoline, capable of a speed of more than 60 miles per hour, selling for $670 (roadster, coupe) up to $725 (four-door sedan). Item B: the new De Soto, a six-cylinder car selling for less than $1,000. In performance and appearance, it is similar to the new Chrysler 65, a slightly more expensive car. "Much for little" is the idea behind the De Soto...
Countess Hella Brandenstein, daughter of Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin, Germany's most distinguished pioneer in aeronautics, tipped a gilded bottle, allowed a stream of liquid air to cascade over the bow of Germany's new giant dirigible; 763 feet long, 102 feet wide, the 117th dirigible built at Friedrichshafen, and the first to be honored with a christening party. Two strips of canvas fell from the hull, revealed the name "Graf Zeppelin." Countess Hella shrilled: "Mit Glueck, Graf Zeppelin...
...agnostic. And evenings, there was Eirwen, sensuous, beautiful, alluring. Reuben's quick passions were aroused and tormented, but another self damned them as unholy. Meanwhile his gift of oratory won him the leadership of a sect of fanatics who confessed, screamed, rolled in mystic joy. In a country-wide revival his converts rivalled Elmer Gantry's in emotional displays, but his own motive and reaction, unlike Elmer Gantry's, are recorded in art and not in bitter propaganda. Author Davies has crudities,of technique, but not of sympathy. A difficult undertaking, this analysis of the tortures...