Word: enormouse
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The British Embassy building on Connecticut Avenue, Washington, is to be sold. Sir Esme Howard, who recently made the announcement, said: "When I walk through these rooms the building seems to reproach me." And well it might; for however dingy it looks from the outside, the interior is indeed beautiful...
"It is not true that patriots are discontented. On the contrary, the truth is the Opposition is carried on by a small, dispossessed group, while the enormous majority of Italian people works and lives quietly. Please note also Fascism counts 3,000,000 adherents, whereof 2,000,000 are Syndicalist...
At one point, a small town friend of his stands up in a box, causing 15 minutes of this and that. For those who receive impressions more readily with the eye than the ear, acts have been designed. "The Rotisserie," in which four girls, trussed on enormous spits, baste in...
His first efforts to be funny in celluloid were dismal. Keystone directors feared that he was overpaid, offered to cancel the contract. Chaplin told Roscoe Arbuckle, the now deposed cinema clown, that he needed a pair of shoes. Arbuckle tossed him a pair of his own enormous brogues. "There you...
Last week, the North American continent quivered in its sleep. Lying face up, it stirred its right shoulder; just a little twitch, but in one so enormous it was a movement visible and tangible in the states of Idaho, Montana, Washington, Wyoming, and sensible even in Italy, 5,500 miles...