Word: enormouse
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Flood Control. Last week, not quite one year after the beginning of the most enormous peacetime calamity in U. S. history, residents of the Mississippi Basin, looking northward, saw millions of acres of snow that would soon melt and incalculable clouds of rain that would soon fall. Winter had come...
Any statement more positive than this double negative would have given Switzer land ground for offense; but Chancellor Seipel had made his meaning crystal clear. He heads a Republican Government which would gladly offer to the League for a headquarters the old, enormous, sumptuous Imperial Palace of the Habsburgs at...
If the people who looked at them appeared silly and ungainly, it was partly by contrast, because the paintings were neither. They are difficult paintings to write about. When Georgia O'Keeffe paints flowers, she does not paint fifty flowers stuffed into a dish. On most of her canvases there...
Atlas and Eva. The best part of this play was the name, and that was changed on the eve of the opening. Under the fascinating title of The Nebblepredders it is reasonable to suppose that the incurably curious, a considerable group, would have patronized pasteboard peddlers.. But the reigning...
Mitchell Kennerley took over the Anderson Galleries when it was an obscure and relatively insignificant house; since then he has increased its business to an enormous extent. The Leverhulme sale, held in his rooms two years ago, was probably the most spectacular art auction ever held in the U. S...