Word: wide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which they say Sir Launcelot, weary with the weight of his armor, once bathe ". Toward this pond, annoyed by the weight of his jockey, Largo, one of the horses entered in the Grand Prix, last week, cantered wildly. The crowd of gentlemen in tall grey hats and ladies in wide flat hats stared and murmured. They were afraid Largo's antics would unnerve the favorite Flamingo. With Largo off the course, the other horses started, rounded the curve of the turf in the sunshine with Croix de Guerre, owned by Ogden Mills (father of the U. S. Under Secretary...
...everyone knows, the beauty of the Langhorne sisters long was the pride of Virginia, the joy of the nation's portrait painters. Their fame spread far and wide, to England where Nancy Langhorne, as Viscountess Astor, brought beauty and sharp wits to Parliament; to Manhattan, where Irene Langhorne became the wife of Charles Dana Gibson, noted artist in pen and ink, who hung her picture from a myriad mouldings, the original "Gibson girl...
After less than five minutes the demonstration was weakening when, to the rescue, in struggled tall young William H. Vanderbilt of Rhode Island with a thin, rectangular object some eight feet long and five feet wide...
...name of his rich classmate, Hayward Kendall, Cleveland coalman, and wrote him a letter. It is easy to become a member of the M Club-simply agree to contribute $1,000 annually to Cornell University. But Classmate Kendall did not want to join; and he said so in a wide open letter to President Livingston Farrand of Cornell. The letter in part...
...largest dairy company in Southern California, the Los Angeles Creamery Co., last week by merger became part of the Golden State Milk Products Co. of San Francisco. Thereby the Golden State organization became state-wide and the largest in the general dairy products and ice cream business along the entire Pacific Coast. Its stockholders are to increase its capital from...