Word: wideness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...GREAT WIDE BEAUTIFUL WORLD-Juanita Harrison-Macmillan...
...broad-shouldered Governor Landon, his collar-ends flapping and his short, iron-grey hair rumpled, showed up at his office in the State House for his 11 o'clock press conference. Seven newshawks were waiting for him. "Well, well, look who's here," twanged the Governor, a wide smile crinkling his plain, friendly face. "Top o' the mornin' to you all." Slouched back in his chair, brown eyes half-closed behind his octagonal rimless spectacles, the Governor talked about the weather, a fishing trip he planned to take, the lack of news. "You know, boys," drawled...
...this excitement was the huge square of the Piazza Venezia in Rome. Thousands and thousands of eyes in the square were riveted on the buff-colored palace of Benito Mussolini. All along the roof torches flickered in the night air. On the second floor the huge windows were flung wide. The crowd in the square could look directly into the vast frescoed office of Il Duce, lighted up like a stage setting. Round the edge of the crowd the flash bulbs of photographers flickered like heat lightning...
...Bureau of Air Commerce. As the plane approaches the airport, it leaves the flying beam and picks up two new beams by means of a special cross-shaped antenna on the plane's nose. One of these is a vertical directional beam about five feet wide at the airport. The other is a lateral, curved landing beam which slants down onto the field from one side, almost vertical ten miles out, 60 feet above ground at field edge, 15 feet above at field-centre. When the pilot has put his plane squarely on the junction of these two beams...
...eight-year journey through 22 countries was arranged (but not corrected) by the daughter of one of her employers-by-the-way. The title was not Juanita's invention, though it echoes her sentiments. She herself has a more personal word for a world that is great, wide, beautiful. Her word is "gelouries...