Word: hugeness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Amid uproarious scenes, a bill to provide Crown Prince Umberto with 2,000,000 lire a year ($80,000) was passed by a huge majority...
...Green Mansions had been a creature so spiritual, that she required no other garments than cobwebs, so sensitive that she could understand the language of the birds, Epstein had represented her as a "superstitious, brutal-looking figure, with a queer anatomy." They viewed with alarm her orgiastic pose, her huge hands, her Babylonian visage. Unruffled, Epstein replied: "I am quite content with my own work and do not seek the approval of others. ... It is not surprising that I have some critics in the press. There were quite a number of old gentlemen in the party while...
...Paris, Mary Garden, amid scenes of "gratifying and extraordinary enthusiasm," made her first appearance there in seven years, sang Fiora in L'slinore dei Tre Re with a voice considerably less shrill, less honed, than in her last U. S. performances. Her acting was passionate. A huge audience of French and U. S. citizens, with a sprinkling of Italians, paid 200 francs ($10.00) for their seats-the highest price ever asked for an operatic performance in Paris. ¶The Paris Grand Opera Company, it is rumored, will give for the first time in more than 30 years Rossini...
Over 20,000 people assembled on the banks of the Schuylkill to watch one of the annual feature events in American rowing circles Saturday. The race for Junior eights was the semi-final event on the huge program, in which 47 crews participated. In the final race of the afternoon, the undefeated Navy crew added Pennsylvania to its string of victims, defeating the Quaker eight by three-quarters of a length in the fast time of six minutes 34 and two-fifths seconds. The record for the Henley course on the Schuylkill of six minutes and 25 seconds was made...
Hall choruses will sing almost in tune; so will various players in the two huge orchestras. Speakers will try in vain to make themselves heard; so will be chaperones. A few upperclassmen will break in; the rest will stay at home and smile...