Word: hugeness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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HELEN KANE continues to sell in huge quantities in her new record. We finally have her picture in colors, if you'd care to have a look...
Vice President Dawes, ever brisk, had written a smart speech. He had written briefly what he had to say, written briefly what the Hooverizers had been trying to say for four months. Something happened to his delivery, however, and the huge audience missed his sharpness as he said: "The real and overshadowing issue . . . is the maintenance of prosperity...
...that any potent cinema player attempting the stage has done to date. She cannot, as yet, match talents with experienced Manhattan actresses, but gives decided promise. Owen Moore, less good, played sullenly. Both were nervous, appalled by the mass of cinema potentates in the opening audience, purveyors of huge talking picture contracts to players who can talk...
...exactly 1,100 membership seats. During the past year, with the continual trading of 3,000,000 and more shares each 5-hour day, outside brokers have clamored for membership; members have growled at would-be intruders. When members were willing to sell their places they got huge sums. Last week one agreed to sell for $480,000. Last week, too, the Exchange's governing committee appointed certain members to study deliberately the possibility of increasing the total number of seats...
...defy the powers of. . . ." Before Senor Soto y Gama could specify what powers he and his propose to defy, the Congress hall shivered slightly and Deputies cried, "Earthquake! Earthquake!" Then they hopped and bolted out the door like prairie gophers. Late escapers said that before they got out the huge crystal chandelier of the Chamber was swinging through an arc of 30 degrees. Had it dragged down the roof and fallen, Mexico's Congress might have been squashed at a single blow. Instead the Earth trembled very gently from 9 p. m. until 3½ minutes past, then settled...