Word: wide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...author has two coldblooded respectable villains, a distinguished authoress, a pure, untainted heroine, a weak-willed mother, a detective, a hero in the form of a nephew of the authoress, and a few minor personages playing lesser parts. In the way of situations, Mr. Reeve has an equally wide variety, none of them wholly credible or real...
...York color, world-wide as well as local, has won the day over intelligence. It proves the truth of Professor Roger's advice to have two pair of pants, for on his haberdashery almost alone has Mayor Walker ridden to fame and fortune. In Boston haberdashery failed to assist a candidate for in the reign of mud that preceded the election few presses could endure. So Curley is in the saddle again. It may be hoped he will not break the camel's back...
...apprenticeship, he shared a draughting board with John Merven Carrère. They quit McKim, Mead & White and hung out their own shingle. Soon they had a commission from Henry M. Flagler, pioneer Florida exploiter, to build two hotels in St. Augustine, the Ponce de Leon and the Alcazar. Wide was the comment aroused by their romantic, freely adapted Spanish style. More commissions came and the rirm was established...
...Nation ("radical" weekly), one Clarence E. Cason, sometime University of Wisconsin rhetoric pedagog, tells the woeful tale of Jeff Burrus, "the university's best electric signboard," Phi Beta Kappa member, Junior Prom chairman, footballer, crew captain. Pedagog Cason said that Paragon Burrus suffered a nervous breakdown from his wide participation in college affairs. Winning a Rhodes scholarship, he went abroad, suffered another breakdown. "Out of his experience has come the conviction that college athletics used him rather shabbily. . . . His picture tends to show conclusively that a football player has no time or thought to give to anything but football...
...very largest scale. To make the scale larger, the Chicago company is sent, in the Insull manner, all over the country on tours; not special engagements in a few big cultural capitals like Baltimore, Washington, Atlanta and Cleveland where Otto Hermann Kahn's Metropolitan goes; but country-wide expeditions-Boston, Buffalo, Columbus, Nashville, Birmingham, Jackson, Dallas. San Antonio, El Paso, Phoenix, Los Angeles, Fresno, Sacramento, Oakland. Amarillo, Tulsa, Lincoln...