Word: hugeness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...regarded as being friendly to the Administrator *James Hamilton Lewis is "the U. S. political beau." Spats, pink waistcoats, purple handkerchiefs, whiskers of scarlet hue he wears with infinite variety. In his fighting days, he would go to the toughest wards of Chicago, dressed in his gayest, huge flower in his lapel, fat and fragrant cigar in his mouth. His audacity melted the hearts of the toughs- and toughs vote with their hearts...
...cold, round moon floated over Jersey City, looked down through the smoke veil spread over factories and freight yards, beheld a vast saucer full of humanity grouped about a luridly lit central platform. On the platform, the moon saw two huge men, one coffee-colored, one swart and hairy, pummeling each other clumsily. The moon, sickened and disappointed, sailed away and sank...
...saucer full of humanity, 80,000 strong, was also sickened and dis- appointed, drifted away grumbling, muttering. It had assembled to see the two huge men do brilliant battle. Instead, these men, who were Harry...
...extraordinary spring and summer which followed have changed this situation altogether. As long as "bull" speculation rules in grain, legislators keep silent. The farmers are beginning to realize that running elevators and making prices are harder to perform in practice than on paper. Meanwhile, huge advances in grain values have yielded large profits to traders, and commission brokers are active, prosperous, optimistic...
...ghost was a ghost only. Lunch over, play rebegun, it vanished forever. Huge Tolley tried to recall it with colossal drives and dogged putting that overcame Marston on the last green. The Hon. Michael Scott besought it by crushing Sweetser 7 and 6. Of the other English, none could raise a finger, all lost...