Word: wideness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Though impressive when bellowed with wide open vowels by grown men, the Fascist Party's "Official Shout" looks in print like the bawling of a baby into which someone has stuck a pin: "Ala! Ala!! Alala...
...opened up over a mile lead. Miss America X, riding with her nose high in the rough water, gained half a mile in the second lap, then dropped back with her motors sputtering in the third. The fourth time around the course, Wood opened his throttles wide. Spectators in 30 airplanes over the race saw the two arrows of spray on the water come closer together. Then Wood shot ahead, in an uproar of cheers and boat whistles. Miss England III, her engines sputtering now, slowed down miserably to 49.661 m. p. h. in the fifth lap, crossed the finish...
...overcome the major financial crisis. . . . Confidence and hope have reappeared in the world. . . . The great war against depression is being fought on many fronts. One of the most stupendous actions has been the long battle of the last 18 months to carry our financial structure safely through the world-wide collapse. That battle may be likened to the great battle of Château Thierry. That attack on our line has been stopped. But I warn you that the war is not over. We must now reform our forces for the battle of Soissons...
...advice, follows their suggestions. President Harding was "run" by Secretary of State Hughes, Attorney General Daugherty, Interior Secretary Fall and Mrs. Harding. The real powers in the Coolidge administration were Massachusetts' Senator Butler, Secretary of the Treasury Mellon and Speaker of the House Longworth. President Hoover's ear is wide open to Banker Henry Robinson of Los Angeles, Secretary of the Treasury Mills, Postmaster General Brown, Governor Meyer of the Federal Reserve Board and Mrs. Hoover (against liquor). If Governor Roosevelt is elected President, who will...
...ended a career that might have been dictated by E. Phillips Oppenheim. New York first saw "Prince Edgar" nearly 40 years ago when he arrived flush with funds and cut a wide swathe through the leg o' mutton-sleeved Society of the period. He married Clare de Cosse Conger, niece of Edwin T. Conger of Ohio, onetime Minister to China. That did not last long. In 1911 Prince Edgar turned up in Vienna, but he talked too much about his relationship to the old Kaiser and was quietly ousted. By this time U. S. newspapers had it quite fixed...