Word: wide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President has declined to interfere or express any opinion on the details of rates . . . but he pointed out that the wide differences of opinion and the length of the discussions in the Senate were themselves ample demonstration of the desirability of a real flexible clause in order that injustice in rates could be promptly corrected. . . . "He urged the Republican leaders to get together and see if they could not . . . thus send the bill to conference with the House within the next two weeks...
...what could properly be called a Values Panic, but there was nothing intangible about the factors which had worked for the change. Behind the group of bankers who met day after day at No. 23 Wall Street there glittered the world's greatest single pool of liquid wealth. How wide, how deep it might be, none but they could tell, for no man outside the doors of No. 23 Wall Street knows the resources of the House of Morgan. Loosely, journalists spoke of a grand total of $10,000,000,000* Over such a mighty sea raged the winds...
...ideas of the Fauves (Wild Beasts)* and no intelligent young painter could ignore them. Modigliani quickly exhausted his Italian academism, delved into the cubism and Negro sculpture which preoccupied his new friends, Picasso, Matisse, Derain and Braque. He became alcoholic and consumptive, affected voluminous trousers, a gay scarf, a wide-brimmed black hat. He lived in grubby Montparnasse with one Jeanne Hebuterne who bore him a child. He was known as the poorest man in Paris. Meanwhile he painted steadily and achieved a personal style. Most of the 400 canvases he left are portraits...
...Notes. Out came a 20-page musical weekly, Top Notes, under the aegis of the established monthly Musical Digest. Ubiquitous Pierre Key, wide-acquaintanced Editor of the monthly, was revealed as Editor of the weekly too. Chatty in tone. Top Notes aimed to be informative; it carried news and comment on musical affairs, radio, musical comedy. Pre-natal influence noted: The New Yorker, Manhattan smartchart...
...Said Editor Howland: "Within these blue and buff covers there are eighty thousand words. They were chosen by eighteen skilled workmen, who joined them together that you might have this record of their ideas and ideals, their doubts and convictions, their theories and experiences. They have unrolled a prospect wide and various across these one hundred and sixty pages, and they have adorned them with truth, as they found it, and with beauty, as they saw it. Their hope is that they may lull you into flattering agreement or sting you into critical dissent." Contributors noted: Editor Henry Hazlitt, Literary...