Word: cavernous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There was an evening in Paris in the '70s when the Prince of Wales, later Edward VII, went backstage at the Varietes. He was led through a gloomy cavern of stained canvas, ropes, flaring lamps. The air was pungent, draughty, filled with the cloying scent of women doused with violent perfumes. The blond prince entered the dressing room of the leading lady, a famed courtesan. She greeted him with coy, voluptuous respect, in tantalizing deshabille. The little dressing room was filled with starchy gentlemen, shouting amid the gay popping of corks. To one side stood a myopic, corpulent, bearded figure...
Guides for the cavern region of the Lost River Reservation in New Hampshire have been used by the Forestry department for nearly six years. Life guards and unusually strong students to help in carrying invalids in hospitals are supplied through the office. One of the steady demands is for donors in blood transfusions at hospitals near Cambridge...
...deep guttural oration issued from the cavern of his throat. He did not move a muscle when the bottle of champagne tinkled and exploded. Afterwards Old Paul von Hindenburg rode away to begin his vacation, hunting chamois in Bavaria. But Germans remembered his words...
Artists and Models. The Winter Garden, onetime cavern of corruption, no longer displays daring shows. Nothing is daring any more in Manhattan. It's too easy. Wherefore one does not go to this extravaganza hoping not to be found out. One takes one's wife & children. Well, perhaps not one's youngest children. One finds an evening alive with chorus girls. More beautiful girls than ever. It's odd how chorus girls in Manhattan shows seem to grow better & better looking on the average. One finds delightful dancing; even a smart song here and there...
...proprietors decreed a new pressroom. In quarters so cramped that two famed manufacturers refused the contract, an entirely new equipment has been laboriously installed. New presses; the moving of a colossal switchboard required the encroachments of a subway under one corner of the structure; a redesigned paper storage cavern stretching far under Brooklyn Bridge were bit by bit purchased, made room for and set scientifically in place. Four years this process required. Last week it was completed. In all the years not one edition or one mail train was missed by a paper plant working 24 hours...