Word: hugeness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Poor men, living by rote, and coddled in all the conveniences which civilization has perfected to make country life tolerable and city life pleasant, are unfamiliar with the forces of Nature, and abashed by any display of the power that throws down telephone poles like jackstraws, cracks huge sewer pipes, and keeps the electric light from turning...
When the Shenandoah, disemboweled like a silver minnow, fell into the Ohio valley, every newspaper in the U. S.-with one exception-shrieked in huge disaster headlines the record of that happening. Not since election day had such exclamatory "spreads" appeared on front pages. But one newspaper realized that constraint, in the face of enormous happenings, is more startling than noise; that gravity appalls more than exclamation points. This sheet, the Miami Herald, give the Shenandoah story a simple "one column" head and followed this clipped announcement with an account which ran without a break for 16 columns (two pages...
Whether Mr. Thaw is, after all, a slobbering degenerate or merely an old man infected with a disgusting and pathetic lust for pleasures which youth alone can make charming; whether or not the Mirror had any higher purpose in its denunciations than the enlargement of an already huge circulation-matters little. The whole episode merely furnished one more example of how a smart editor can make sensationalism the light that illumines his paper's exceeding morality...
...Trust. Names poured in: "Edithwatha," "Edithsdream," "Edithport," "Edithton City," "Lakrenda," "Shadowwood," "Eden Pier," "Krenado Beach" (after Architect Krenn). A Chinaman from Madison, Wis., suggested "Elysians." W. R. Hearst of Maywood, Ill., received a prize of $5 for an inferior title. But a touch of genius fired one Elmer H. Huge of La Porte, Ind. He turned in the name, "Edithton Beach," received...
Just as conservative observers, had expected, Tilden and Johnston faced each other in the finals. Just as they had expected, Johnston played superbly. His drives bit with the malice of soundless white bees. He took the first set, 6-4, and a huge crowd stood up to shout for him. In the second set came the knot of the match. Johnston led at 9-8 and 30-40. Tilden was serving. If Johnston had taken that point, it would have been extremely unlikely that Tilden could have closed up a two-set lead, and already it was quite clear that...