Word: wideness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...moved along the highway the President could see wide fields of sugar cane, with tobacco on higher ground and coffee cultivation on the uplands of the red clay mountains which caused the elder Roosevelt on his 1906 visit to call the island the "Switzerland of America...
...beginners, and practice in technique for those more advanced. Following this climb there will be a number of other local climbs which lead up to several weekend trips in the White Mountains and adjacent mountains. All these climbs will be under the tutelage of men who have had world wide experience in mountaineering...
...Denishawn School for a teaching partnership with Bill Robinson, Negro tap-dancer. To many it seemed an odd arrangement: Dancer Shawn does his leaps and bounds, usually half clad, in an earnest attempt to interpret fundamental moods. Natty little Dancer Robinson keeps his clothes on, is famed for his wide grin, his slick, metronomic way of hoofing up & down a flight of steps, and for being able to run backwards at a speed which completely belies his 52 years (75 yd. in 8 sec.). Prime product of his teaching was the late famed Florence Mills...
...Manhattan, Sam Brawermann. 32, retired buttonhole maker, advertised Science & Invention, amused Union Square crowds by squeezing through the model of a keyhole, 6½ in. wide, 12½ in. long. Nimble Mr. Brawermann then tore the strings out of a tennis racquet, climbed through the frame. Next he took off his shirt, lay on a bed of 1,200 spikes, permitted people to walk over him. When he got up his skin was unbroken. Five feet five inches tall, weighing 150 lb., Mr. Brawermann said that he had never been on the stage, had just picked up his tricks...
...simple faith by the grandiose sound of its name. Again like the Bank of U. S. it has long been heartily damned by the cognoscenti, though unlike the crashed bank, nothing could possibly be more respectable than the academy. Last week the National Academy of Design flung wide its doors for a 106th annual exhibition. A great many people crowded in. Last November, stung by the scorn of younger critics, the Academicians and their Associates limited the show to their own works. This display of energy was not maintained last week. Beside the exhibits...