Word: width
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Curwood as he would like to have been-is golden-haired, steel-sinewed David Rock who, through his attachment to the humanitarian Black Hunter, is suspected of treason by his foppish, malicious French overlords and lives through to wed silken-lashed Anne St. Denis only by the slim width of a tomahawk blade. History pours forth aplenty through the tale, but not more than Mr. Curwood's vast and romantic public can follow. All the characters have Souls, lofty or eternally damned. For each date set down there are at least two kisses and three burning looks. And even...
...evening recently spent at one of those clubs which make a Boston night quite too awful, did you really go? Well, I tried my best to be friendly with every one and keep on the sidelines, even hoping for a small, size six and a half, B width brawl. But nothing transpired except a gentleman whom I had to drag out of the way of two member of the metropolitan police who thought his the skin they'd love to touch. The music was good. Something had to be. I made Aubrey Beardsley drawings on the table cloth with...
...Philadelphia, Mr. Bergdoll's mother cautiously opened her door "by the width of a pencil" when visited by reporters. They poked an account of her son's arrest through the slit. After reading the despatch, Mrs. Bergdoll replied through the door: "I don't believe a word of it! When I was in Germany with him, he went around with a lot of young people but he never used to go with girls of the sort who would have him arrested. I don't even believe that he's in jail. He would have cabled...
...structure has the same width as the old, but its depth is more than doubled as it extends as far back as Palmer Street. An impression of greater width is created by a large vestibule 25 feet deep, faced with bronze and flanked by large show windows. Throughout the store, the problem of display has been given increased attention. On both sides of the interior display cases extend from the front of the store to the rear...
...value of any element in education lies in its richness in ideas by which it strengthens and enlarges the mind. Science has such ideas in plenty; and History and Modern Languages; but none of these subjects has them more richly than the Classics. Their strength lies just in this width of range. They include much of the greatest poetry, philosophy, history, criticism that the world has produced, and Greek in particular is the supreme embodiment of the true spirit of Science, the resolve to question all things and see them as they really...