Word: wideness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heart attack, was put to bed seriously ill. Desperate, her son Eugene II dispatched a letter to a St. Louis collector of Fieldiana who recently prevented the destruction of the poet's birthplace. Surprised to learn Mrs. Field was still alive, the collector gave the letter wide publicity. At once Phi Delta Theta, Field's fraternity at Knox College and the University of Missouri, collected the money, sent it to Heafford Junction an hour before Mrs. Field was to lose her home. Murmured tired old Mrs. Field: "So they've not forgotten us after...
Last week the stockholders of Container Corp. of America received a printed postcard from their company, beginning with the well-worn refrain: "It is our policy to give our stockholders full information at all times. . . ." Prepared to slog through the usual corporate platitudes, Container stockholders opened their eyes wide at what followed: "We recognize that while matters of considerable importance will be submitted at the Annual Stockholders' Meeting in Chicago it may be difficult or impossible for many of our Eastern stockholders to attend this meeting because of distances involved. Therefore, I cordially invite you, or your duly accredited...
...were not frightened by Waldo Frank's imitation thunder might have gathered that in Malraux's stormy tale they would feel more than met the eye. Like Malraux's other books, Days of Wrath is a fable; its story is topical but it carries implications as wide as the modern world...
...remark; he got the habit himself. The suppression of publicity has resulted in a plethora of scandalous rumors. Glasses of tea are always too hot to pick up conveniently. The food is too heavy. Vodka, the national drink, is simply a form of raw alcohol. Russian wastebaskets are so wide-meshed that everything falls through them. When Russians make beds they never tuck in the bedclothes. Wilson's stay in Russia brought out his U. S. patriotism, made him feel that Americanism was different from everything European not in degree but in kind. After weeks of scarlet fever...
...schemes far ahead of the actual accomplishment. Dealing, as he does, with not only architectural compositions, but also the problems of land grading, engineering, water-supply, and drainage, as well as questions involved by the use of vegetation in mass and detail, his training necessarily covers a wide field of study...