Word: enormouse
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Said M. Stelmachovics: "The rapid economic recovery of Russia during the past twelve months has been attended by an enormous increase in the number of cases of embezzlement and graft reported by the police. . . . At Moscow such crimes have increased eleven fold in twelve months, and in the provinces the...
In Chicago a U. S. singer unknown to fame, one Richard Bonelli, made his début as Germont Sr. in La Traviata. He proved to have one of those baritone voices that make connoisseurs think of the golden, summery booming of an enormous bee. The audience called him out...
Episcopal bishops from Haiti, Minnesota, Pennsylvania and Illinois, in purple and white robes and violet birettas, a group of Army and Naval officers in uniform, and the speakers of the day-Elihu Root, Governor Smith, Sir Campbell Stuart-in high silk hats and sleek frock coats, followed a young crucifer...
Bishop Manning, with a silver trowel in his hand, strode down the aisle in swishing panoply until he confronted an enormous block of golden Poughkeepsie granite propped up in the south end of the Cathedral by a block and tackle. Trustee George W. Wickersham described how, in the pit prepared...
Two enormous crowds assembled to see the University of California play Washington University-crowds separated, not by their allegiance, but by their pocketbooks. For whereas 75,000 football fans with their class-conscious ladies passed in an orderly fashion through the gates of the Berkeley stadium, some 25,000 merry...