Word: hugeness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Metropolitan Museum. The offer was made on the day of Bellows' death. On that day, Zuloaga and Bellows were both exhibiting in Manhattan. It is stated that 1,000 persons passed each day before the billowing, vehement, satiric canvases of Zuloaga; the sales had reached a huge sum. Fewer sales, fewer observers attended the Bellows exhibit. At the announcement of Zuloaga's gift, U. S. friends and artists talked among themselves. Zuloaga, they knew, had only twice met Bellows. Such phrases of their colloquy as "ill-advised," "condescension," "poor taste," "advertisement" were permitted, not unintentionally, to come...
...university, the one voice and note of pervading human personality in which everybody had a share, was Copey? Meeting classmates whom you didn't know from Adam there was one way you could always make conversation, one platform on which you could always get together, and that was your huge relish of Copey's jokes. They passed around the college from tongue to tongue with the dizzy speed of village gossip. Copey's epigrams were, and are, the folklore of the college...
...family of his own! His family numbers by the hundreds, if not the thousands a huge, ever-young family of boys, the pick of the land, loyal and affectionate to the godfather of their minds and the friend of their youth. Uncle Dudley in the Boston Globe...
That part of the Southwark Cathedral which is now the Harvard Memorial Chapel, was formerly known as St. John's Chapel, and was used as a vestry room. The chapel as portrayed by the photo forms an alcove flanked on either side by two huge gothic pillars. Between the pillars, and occupying the center of the background, is a large altar, backed by a beautifully decorated stained window. The altar is the gift of Mr. R. W. Hickox '72, who presented it in 1907 when the chapel was repaired and dedicated anew to the memory of John Harvard. The altar...
...When I was in Berlin in 1923 I visited the grounds of the huge museum which is now under construction, and was told that one entire ward of the building will be devoted to plaster reproductions of architectural and sculptural subjects in the style of those in our local museum...