Word: wide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dean of Harvard writers, but he does not hesitate to associate with the callow Harvard correspondents who get their news daily form the official spokesman of Soldiers Field. True, he does not depend entirely upon this source, for his friendship with coaches, officials and former players is a wide one, but he is on the spot almost every afternoon when the news is given...
...life. He made a friend of every student who sought him for advice or direction, and gave his time willingly to serve interests not his own. He had the gifts which make social intercourse pleasant,--humor, readiness and felicity of expression, quick appreciation, and the resources of a wide culture at the command of a ready and retentive memory. When he died the world lost much more than one of its great scholars...
...Here another nightmare threatens her with black hands. Her aunt, in the narrow bitterness of old age, sustains her hatred of life upon meager leathery biscuits. The house is overun with savage dogs, the descendants of the hounds with which Theodosia's uncle had once hunted across the wide fields. At last, drugged with horror, Theodosia goes into the back country to teach school. Hearing the small voices of children and the strong sounds of secure life, she begins to recover her poise. "She heard the noises of the night, the tree-frogs and crickets, the frogs...
...SHANNONS OF BROADWAY?The wide awake wanderings of vaudeville vagrants in a small town...
...last week famed Paul Theodore Frankl* of the Frankl Galleries, Manhattan. Paul Theodore Frankl has designed "architectural" or "skyscraper" bookcases & dressing tables that tower in tiers, armchairs that are at once squat & graceful, a "step table" for books, and a "narrow chest of drawers" (5 ft. high, 8 in. wide, 12 in. deep). This furniture is intended for the smallish rooms of costly city flats. It is considered to be acceptable to the eye because "the exterior (skyscraper) architecture has developed a modern note of the most advanced sort and the eye is already trained to accept adaptions of this...