Word: enormouse
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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East of Suez. Pola Negri has a new coif, and no becoming one at that. Much less inflaming than usual, she writhes her way through W. Somerset Maugham's play about a Eurasienne, who was shanghaied, in the city of that name, by a yellow gentleman with enormous talons...
Unlike the late Herr Hugo Stinnes, who was a Rhinelander, this indus- trial potentate hails from Frankfort, home of the Rothschilds. Unlike the dead "King of Coke," the "King of the Borse" is a Jew; his great predecessor in wealth was a Lutheran. Unlike the bluff, hard, scowling Stinnes, the...
The Chinese who, as recent events have shown, are not slow to exchange their medieval methods of warfare for the modern system devised in the Occident, have accordingly made looting a crime. This is, of course, only a half-truth, because in China there is no National Army, but an...
Immediately before he was elected President, the Bolshevik scare had been to some extent dissipated by Mr. Calles himself. After his inauguration (TiME, Dec. 8), he had arrested Senor Proal, Red agitator, warned other agitators; he had cut down the enormous number of holidays hitherto enjoyed by Mexican Federal officials...
Since the inception of the London- Paris air routes, 37 persons have lost their lives and 12 have been seriously injured. These accidents are so spectacular that they draw attention away from the enormous mileage of steady, uneventful flying. On the British and Dutch air lines, for the last three...