Word: hugeness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stale stump-speech slang calls 'the interests' are too strong or our foes too cunning for us, or in raking about for stray scraps of comfort or loose fragments of rainbow hopes here and there-mostly there. We have been beaten in two successive general elections by huge and increasing majorities. Either the people are wrong or we Democrats here in Congress who have made the record for our party the last four years are wrong. From that direct issue there is no escape. For one, I confess myself deeply shamed and moved to searching...
...Republicans in Cincinnati, Horace Greeley, editor of The New York Tribune, was nominated over Charles Francis Adams. Greeley was for high tariff; he had often flayed the Democrats. Yet the Democratic convention chose "to eat crow" and nominated Greeley. For a time Greeley scared the Grant men. He drew huge audiences when he spoke. The campaign became viciously personal. Thomas Nast, having just helped to upset the Tweed Ring in New York City by his cartoons, turned his devastating pen upon Greeley. Gratz Brown, a Missourian, who was Greeley's running-mate, was not known (by sight) in Manhattan...
...organized a company-Vincent Lopez Inc.-the shares of which he has offered for sale as a canner might offer the shares of his cannery. He plans to organize orchestras all over the U. S., to found a school to train musicians for these orchestras, to broadcast on a huge scale. Said...
Trig, bobbed, black-velveted, she waved the baton, now in her right hand, now in her left, worked furiously at the climaxes; sometimes she shook her fist at the trombones. After every number, the house burst into bravos. Early in the evening a huge wreath, surmounted by the British and American flags, was placed on the stage. Her admirers came to praise. Repeatedly she tried to make the orchestra rise and bow with her, but that organization of astute and courteous musicians remained obstinately seated. They knew that Miss Leginska believed herself to be experiencing the only sensible gratification which...
line. It crumbled at guard, it crumbled at tackle, it might have crumbled again, but Halfback Walker whipped a pass over the line to Left End Shipkey and the huge Nevers' pounding was no longer necessary. Cuddeback kicked goal...