Word: wideness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...BILLY ROSE'S AQUACADE, the velvet-eyed little showman hired a handful of aquatic stars including Johnny ("Tarzan") Weissmuller, Eleanor Holm Jarrett, who is at home with either water or champagne. Divers Aileen Riggin and Dick Degener and Stubby Kreuger, the diving clown. A floating stage 160 ft. wide, equipped with diving towers, was built in a shipyard and towed into place on the lake front by six tugs. While the Aquacade was going on, the stage was to be 60 ft. offshore from the block-long casino whence 4,000 spectators could watch. After the show the stage...
...artificial respirator is a casket-like steel box 74 in. long, 65 in. high, 44 in. wide. At the front end is a rubber ruff through which Fred Snite's head projects face up, like a mystic's dream of bodiless intelligence. Within, on a sheeted mattress, lies his flaccid, wasted body covered with a night dress...
...Colwell during the past two weeks has had increasing difficulty in returning the ball to the pitcher. In the Holy Cross game, he threw wide of the mound five times in succession, but was unerring in throws to the bases...
Actress Helen Hayes (Victoria Regina) worded her address of welcome solemnly: "The Council feels that perhaps the theatre has been backward in meeting new conditions, in adapting its methods to a changed and changing world. It may be that [workers in the theatre] have not been sufficiently wide awake; they have not seized or created opportunities to resort to strategy and salesmanship; to develop new audiences; to stimulate dramatic output and to reshape the physical conditions in existing theatre. Much ground may have been lost but one proven fact remains and that fact is thoroughly encouraging: THE DEMAND FOR DRAMA...
...course, the speculators hoped that in the meantime they could buy back the corn they had sold at lower prices. But instead of going down corn went up, up, up. By last April it was selling at $1.33 per bu., a twelve-year high, and in the subsequent world-wide break in commodity prices corn suffered relatively little. Last week in a belated scramble to buy corn for May delivery, the price was squeezed to $1.40 per bu., highest level since 1920, in the days of post-War inflation...