Word: wideness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...weeks ago at "The Dells," a suburban roadhouse northwest of Chicago celebrated for good orchestras and bad customers, John ("Jake the Barber") Factor, his shapely second wife and Son Jerome, 19, were entertaining a party of friends. "The Dells" is about three miles from the Evanston line on a wide and main-traveled concrete road. Not far down it, on the way home, Jake the Barber's car was stopped by thugs with machine guns. As his frightened wife looked on from a car behind, Factor & friend were spirited away in the gangsters' automobile. The friend was dumped...
...have many Jewish readers-ardent ones. Should the Jewish people (I happen to be President of this section of Council of Jewish Women) seriously consider boycotting your magazines you probably would awaken to the realization that the Jews in this country are quite a factor and wield a wide influence. Am writing this as a friendly protest. Your future consideration of the subject will guide my actions. MRS. LOUIS SAKS Birmingham...
...chairman and now world's No. i banker is Frederick Craufurd Goodenough, Esq., who got his start not in banking but in another Empire institution, Hudson's Bay Co. Grandson of a headmaster of Westminster School he is at 67 Britain's stanchest advocate of Empire-wide banking...
...Among the members of the Harvard faculty who devoted themselves to the study of letters no man so full a knowledge of the literature of different countries than Professor Babbitt." C. B. Gulick '90, Eliot Professor of Greek, said on Sunday, voicing his deep regret. "His reading was extraordinarily wide and penetrating and he has done much to present his students with the continuity of literature from the days of the Greeks to our own. He was a devoted friend of the classics and he made the ideas of classical literature the standard of reference for his wise and acute...
Blinding javelins of lightning encircled the colossal pile, and after each succeeding shower there was blinding darkness all around. Rain washed the wide expanse of windows intermittently and the wind in the chimneys moaned and shrilled like some dying titan. It was a fit night for ghoulish purposes, unthinkable horrors that drive the possessor slowly mad. In the cavernous vault the noise of thunder rolled and broke with the insistence of throbbing tom-toms. Somewhere out over the plain of roofs gleaming with water and the trees that tossed their branches in a spasm of agony as if to relieve...