Word: wideness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Edward of Wales in a Provencal fisherman's wide cobalt blue trousers and short-sleeved white shirt with blue bars across the chest, turned up at Cannes dressed exactly like most other swanksters. One of H. R. H.'s entourage of six smoked a corncob pipe labeled "From Missouri." No. 1 Woman remained beauteous Baltimore-born Mrs. Ernest A. Simpson, wife of a complacent Briton (TIME, Sept. 24, March 11). Wallis Warfield Spencer Simpson and H. R. H. were vexed by an absurd pamphlet purporting to have been written by her and titled What Charmed the Prince...
...steel splinter flew into his left eye, blinded it. Given $1,800 disability compensation, he promptly bought an old "Canuck," was soon barnstorming the Southwest. In Sweetwater, Tex. he met & married a pretty 17-year-old girl named Mae Laine who regarded him and his occupation with a wide-eyed enthusiasm not shared by her rancher father...
...Mayer, it helped to ripen her friendship with Paul Bern, one of MGM's ablest associate producers. Handsome, slender, melancholy, brilliant and distinguished by his profound sympathy for other people's troubles, Paul Bern was called by his friends "a motion picture Christ." The phrase had no wide currency until Labor Day, 1932-the day, two months after his marriage to Jean Harlow, that Paul Bern was found naked in his bathroom, face down and dead, with a bullet in his brain. His friends might have assumed that Jean Harlow had caused Bern's suicide...
...massive 59-year-old Alsatian, whose huge red, wide-eyed face looks as if it were being constantly pressed against an invisible pane of glass, Jack Curley was christened Jacques Armand Schuel, chose his present name because he has curly hair...
...wanted a nice, quiet, secluded cell where he would not be able to get his hands on a bottle of whiskey. He found himself in a modern hospital resembling an expensive hotel, where he was compelled to meet and talk with other patients, and where he slept in "a wide-open show window, an illuminated dog kennel." The medical attention was so close that, as he objected profanely, "people come walking in and out and prodding me with sticks every minute of the day and night." Irritable, anxious to sleep, half stupefied with drink, he objected to being weighed...