Word: width
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time to his own manuscripts. The late Enoch Arnold Bennett described Swinnerton: "He tells authors what they ought to do and ought not to do. He is marvelously and terribly particular and fussy about the format of the books issued by the firm. Questions as to fonts of type, width of margins, disposition of title-pages, tint and texture of bindings really do interest him. And misprints-especially when he has read the proofs himself-give him neuralgia and even worse afflictions. . . . Medium height, medium looks, medium clothes, somewhat reddish hair, and lively eyes. If I had seen...
...fell away to the horizons behind. He saw the sun catch the chromium glint, of the skyscraper and he watched a single pine tear the rising moon to shreds on a distant hill. And always by the side of old and winding roads, on the kerbs of four-width highways, red dress. On steps, in doorways, by the side of old and winding roads, on the kerbs of four-width highways. And always as her laugh rang through the twilight or her glance shone as the golden bar of heaven the Vagabond saw some poor wight follow after as Merlin...
...strong-backed chair standing in a cage with six jungle cats snapping and snarling on six star-spangled hassocks-that is their version of economic planning. . . . Yet that is the condition these economic genii want to restore. . . . These men have really nothing to support them but the width of their mouths and the volumetric capacity of their lung power. . . . The fact is that they do not know what they want and men in that condition ought not to speak...
Parallel bars and a leather horse were all that was needed in Manhattan's Car negie Hall one night last week for two Russian dancers to show what could be done in the way of acrobatics. Time & again the boy jumped half the width of the stage, flicked his heels together, spun on one foot until the audience felt exhausted. Once the girl took a flying leap and the boy caught her by one wrist and pulled her through the air. At the end of two hours the girl was wearing a flaming red cap, the boy a cockade...
Hands. The Hahn picture is the same width as the Louvre painting, but 7½ inches shorter. In 1752, the first descriptive catalog of the royal picture gallery described a woman in red, by Leonardo, "holding a piece of lace in her hands." Measurements of this picture are the same as those of the present Louvre portrait which has no hands. The supposition is that when the Hahn portrait was transferred from wood to canvas in 1777,* the 7½ inches at the bottom containing the hands...