Word: hugeness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...political campaign in America is a very much greater undertaking than elections under the British system. The huge number of voters to be reached and the vast territory to cover make American electioneering a task of magnitude beyond anything we have at home...
...burdened with heavy debts and are passing through a period of unexampled depression. We need all our surplus cash to finance our own trade and develop our own resources. It is an act of criminal recklessness at such a time to guarantee huge sums of money to be spent in another country by a Government whose principles are predatory and destructive of all legitimate enterprise...
...with healthy blood and full-blown appetites, Pallieter, simple, lighthearted Flemish farmer, wallows joyously in Life? snuffing its smells, slobbering over its flavors, smacking his thighs over its rich sensations. He swims naked at dawn in his river, cries over the beauties of sunsets and spring flowers, rides a huge mare bareback through a thunderstorm, rolls exulting in new snow on Christmas morning, devours gigantic meals, gulps down gallons of wine and other drinkables. The story?what there is of it?covers that year of Pallieter's life when he found Marieke, a rosy Rubens virgin, married her straightaway...
...other dramatic histories, has completed a libretto for an opera, based on the life of Robert Burns, eternal Scots laureate poet. This screed is now in the hands of composer Ernest Austin, an Englishman, known chiefly for his colossal organ tone-poem, Pilgrim's Progress, in twelve huge parts. In the new work, Austin plans to make use of many Scotch folk-tunes, including several of the familiar melodies now associated with Burns' popular lyrics...
...composer Brahms was a prodiguous, forbidding fellow. His huge Teutonic whiskers used to sweep over his whole waistcoat as he remarked: "For the shallow delights of matrimony and opera I have no courage." This spirit runs through his music, which makes no compromises with the sugary "lollypop-school." There are but few exceptions to this: His Hungarian Dances are played, with excessive abandon, by every vaudeville violinist and every cafe-orchestra in Paris, and his Wiegenlied is listed in the catalog of every gramo-phone-record mannfacturer. But the bulk of Brahms remains "musicians' music." This is particularly true...