Word: enormouse
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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"Gloomy Gus." The gentleman was, of course, Mr. Alanson Bigelow Houghton, chubby, rotund, 62, late U. S. Ambassador to Germany, now U. S. Ambassador to Britain, sine? birth destined to his present industrial mogulship: Chairman of the Board of the enormous Corning Glass Works, which the Houghtons of Corning, N...
Destroying icebergs is dangerous work. Usually a small boat puts off from the cutter carrying high explosives, which are planted at accessible spots. Sometimes, though, overhanging ledges threaten to snap off with cold, pitiless destruction. Here mines are floated down. Often a berg is too enormous to destroy; one has...
Absolution is the most astonishing piece in the collection. Imagine Booth Tarkington suddenly endowed with a real sense of beauty and a Slavic flair for psychology. Rudolph Miller, aged eleven, has enormous, intense blue eyes and a private name for himself, "Blatchford Sarnemington." By lying at the Catholic confessional and...
Admittedly the Premier will be faced by enormous opposition in his own part (Tory) if he tries to put through the Commission's recommendation that the Government acquire the nation's coal. The miners' representatives will find it difficult if not impossible to reconcile their men to a wage cut...
So they sang in the days when a ride on a bicycle was a thrilling and fashionable experience. Bicycles are still ridden. Last week an enormous crowd in Madison Square Garden gathered to see the most famous pedalers of this decade start on a race that was to last six...