Word: enormouse
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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" Parliamentary functions today waste an enormous amount of time over speeches by people who are not fit to tackle problems. It is to the newspapers that we have to go for expert opinion. Today the real parliament is the press. When Parliaments first started there was neither the press nor...
Cyrano, the play, offers romance trimmed and garnished with all the vast imagination of Edmond Rostand's genius. It makes no pretense of credibility; it is frankly a love story with plenty of swordplay and roses. Cyrano, himself, is an individual whose enormous heart is only exceeded in magnitude by...
Mary Garden, with her enormous prestige, was made manager. One might have guessed that a soprano was a sorry person to direct an opera company, with its natural animosities between singers; that Miss Garden, with her inspired caprices, least of all was of a temperament for the job. Feuds and...
She was still strong, but?"Too old," said employer after employer. She sank from poverty to poverty?jobs got fewer and fewer. Accident rescued her at last?and put her in charge of the motherless little Meyerbogens?children of an enormous, kindly, widowed baker at Coronation Point. They appreciated her?...
In Los Angeles, Charles S. Chaplin, screen comedian, obtained a temporary injunction preventing the showing of films in which one Charles Amador copies the old time Chaplin makeup, including his famous silly derby hat, half-portion mustache, baggy pants, enormous and weird shoes and nimble bamboo cane. Amador contended that...