Word: widens
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Filling in when Clark exits to light a new cigar, the chorus does only a passable job with Herbert's music, mangling the words to widen their smiles. The dancing is fair; the supporting east barely struggles above a mediocre rut; but when Clark reappears, the show comes back to life. Vaudeville will never die so long as Clark and his cigar are smoldering; and in "Sweethearts," both Clark and cigar...
...Army blame his labor laws and his inflationary wage increases for the country's deteriorating economy; but if he tries to withdraw the favors granted, he runs the risk of losing labor support. If he does nothing, and the economy worsens, his split with the Army will widen. Perón, conscious of this danger, has harped on the theme of "nefarious forces" attempting to sabotage his regime. Government newspapers have recalled that 1,500,000 died in the Mexican revolution. Evita, echoing the ominous note, said last week: "If I have to fall I will fall in front...
Since the first Howard Johnson restaurant was built in Quincy, Mass. 18 years ago, 225 more white-walled, orange-tiled units of the chain have sprung up along main highways from Maine to Florida. Last week, tall, hefty Howard Johnson announced plans to widen out. Already under construction (near Dayton, Columbus and Cincinnati) were the first of 200 new branches that will carry his name, his ice cream (28 flavors) and his own brand of New England decor across the Middle West and into California...
...provoke a major war Fischer doubts; the country, he believes, will be far too weak during the next 20 to 30 years. The danger as he sees it is rather that the Soviet Union might stumble into war through trying to repair its weakness-i.e., in trying to widen its protective belt of satellite states, it may encroach on the West's own conception of security...
Arnold Schoenberg's String Trio, Opus 45, has extraordinary strength and spaciousness of sonority to widen this composer's usual sphere of unfiled phantasmagoria. It taxes the strings, quite successfully, to the hilt, with truncated, screeching tremolos, portamentos, and sounds produced with the back of the bow. But the more familiar this listener becomes with Schoenberg's devices, the less is he able to be content with the sheer magnificent discoveries of sounds, and the more is he confirmed in his preconception that a work of art demands by nature a connecting tissue alien to Schoenberg's methods...