Word: hugeness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Princesss Theatre Company of Madrid. One of the major entertainment aggregations of Spanish and Brazilian evenings burst into the huge Manhattan Opera House for a week of repertory. They are Maria Guerrero and Fernando Diaz de Mendoza with various assistants. The word "burst" is used advisedly. The Spaniards played with more explosive energy than any troupe of melodramatists that one may see in this inhibited country off the one-night stands. This, apparently, is what the Spanish crave, Raquel Meller to the contrary. Maria Guerrero had the most to do. She fulminated and she growled, stamped and tore the plays...
George B. Cortelyou, President of the Gas Company, had arranged a last performance in the famous place. Under the huge chandelier that once had gravely lighted the 3,000 elegants in hoop-skirts and tight trousers who danced there one memorable night (Oct. 12, 1860) under the eyes of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales? upon the stage where Patti sang, where Modjeska triumphed, where Edwin Booth, Salvini, Lawrence Barrett, John McCullough, Campanini, Ole Bull, sang or spoke or played, white-haired Otis Skinner, actor, made a little speech. He spoke well, with that fine courtliness, which distinguishes actors and field...
...everyone knows, the eagle is a bird more remarkable for vigor than sagacity. This was again proved when the little steamer Sulanierco recently sailed away from Porto Pico followed by a huge black and white eagle soaring high above her wake, disdaining to swoop for scraps thrown by the cook unless they consisted solely of meat...
...broken up into its constituent companies. It was an illegal combination in restraint of trade in the Government's eyes, but in the minds of the public it was more than that- a bugaboo for its enormity. That was the day before Babbitt could digest with equanimity huge business transactions retailed in his breakfast journal. Now he has become so used to big figures that he merely glances at the digits in the millions column and lets the remaining zeros trail in the fringe of consciousness...
...glutted with students. And in that aspect above all lies interest for the Harvard undergraduate. For those who would oppose change of any kind either in curriculum, in choice of entrants, in form or function of the University too little realize how very necessary it is that the huge numbers who now want and can get an education must be assimilated into the life of the University Any methods which best assists in such assimilation must not have the abrupt disregard of those who forget how many there are who now desire what the University has and is unable...