Word: hugeness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...still rather hard to imagine a moving picture house with a foyer that is strikingly similar to the great vestibule in the Grand Opera House in Paris, For here are the great marble pillars, the elegant promenoirs, the imposing balconies, and only the huge double staircase is lacking. The hush that pervades this, sacred place, is something between that of Napoleon's Tomb and Westminster Abbey. Patrons tiptoe incessantly up and down the heavy rugs in the corridors, looking strangely lost. Usually they are. It requires no end of time to find the theatre itself. Easy enough to run into...
Sirs: In the Sept. 28 issue of TIME, Page 23, I note you have, under the classification PRESS, stated that "every newspaper in the country with one exception shrieked in huge disaster headlines the record of the Shenandoah disaster." The "one" was the Miami Herald according to your comment...
...such cock-loftiness even American? Did it not endanger the very principles of equality upon which the nation was founded? For a long time he brooded on this question, went down into his cellar, wrote a sign, affixed it to his front window. "To Let," he stated, adding, in huge black letters: "NEGROES ONLY...
Nevertheless, the company's business turnover is exceptionally rapid. Armour & Co. pays cash to farmers for their livestock and produce, and gets its money back from its 500,000 customers in about two weeks. On its huge gross business, estimated at $800,000,000 for the present year, credit losses are remarkably small...
...trends are anticipated in this year's Christmas goods. First, the blazing colors popularized in London for male attire promise to be outdone in America. Many males will probably be astonished at the color of shirts, cravats, socks, dressing-gowns and even suitings presented to him. Second, a huge tide of foreign goods is now being imported. Better and more German toys will be seen. Fine quality of European glass, stamped leather and silk novelties from England, France, Italy and Czecho-Slovakia are already arriving...