Word: hugeness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...guests ate at small tables in the garden, served from a huge buffet in the Map Room laden with odorous food. As they departed each received a small box of wedding cake...
...wedding party did not attempt to eat, but waited for luncheon until they returned to the Mellon apartment, which takes up a whole floor in a huge apartment building on Massachusetts Ave. Even this extraordinary home was overtaxed by the wedding, and the Secretary was obliged to rent an ordinary apartment below his own huge one in which to accommodate wedding guests and wedding presents...
...wedding presents were not listed for publication, and only a few intimate friends were allowed to see them. A few, however, are known: the Cabinet sent a huge silver tray, appropriately inscribed; lace, silver and handsomely bound books there were in profusion; Ambassador Esme Howard sent a rare and handsome edition of Don Quixote...
...bewilderment. The School of Architecture is to different in this respect than other departments. There is a new technique of language, of study, and of production before him and most important of all, there enters that uncertain element--the necessity for creative ability. He finds himself in a huge room full of noise and men, restlessness and work--this later in a marked degree. He sees a cross section of life and a set of values that will remain the same for him always in considerable contradiction, in many cases to chose rather glittering and dubious values of college life...
...They all agree that the building up of a huge war machine on the basis of compulsory military training would make for war and not for peace. Such military and naval establishments were the expressions of the fears and conflicts of the European nations and played a large part in bringing on the Great War. It is because our preparedness program is developing features dangerously skin to the militarism we enlisted to fight in 1917 that this pamphlet is sent forth. Today to an extent that most of us have never dreamed of, military training is being forced upon...