Word: hugeness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...basic difference exists between the naval requirements of Great Britain and France. The Empire depends primarily upon surface craft to rule waves. The Republic must rely upon submarines to blow up such surface ships as approach her shores-because France has a huge army to support and cannot spare the cash to compete with Great Britain in surface warboats. Submarines, being the cheapest effective naval weapon of defense, are in high favor with the "coast-defensive"* navies of France...
...whole Thompson phenomenon was in sight. Thompson and his men were beaten and discredited in the primary election this spring. Thompson has been convicted of grafting and .ordered to pay back $2,500,000 to the city. Thompson's city-comptroller has had to resign, owing to huge deficits in the city's finances. Thompson's rich friend, George F. Getz, has transferred his funds and interest to the political projects of a man who used to handle the Getz trucking interests in Manhattan, Alfred E. Smith. Thompson has lately been complaining, like Hughes, of ill health...
...last splintered fragment fell, Citizen Morren waved his pick at the huge crowd and helplessly irate police below, crying: "Long live Belgium! and France! and America! We Belgians are not all Boches like Monsignor [expectorating] Ladeuze...
...less than 200,000 singers lent their services. In Vienna, grandstands seating 400,000 persons were constructed along the Ringstrasse in which the Viennese watched an almost interminable parade of singers. Richard Strauss, Vienna's chief musical luminary, opened the choral singing which was conducted in a huge hall specially constructed for the purpose on the Prater...
Arriving by air in Los Angeles last week for a series of eight concerts at the Hollywood Bowl, Albert Coates, famed English orchestra leader, delivered a note on his methods of conducting: "I find that by wearing huge white cuffs and using long sweeping motions, I am able to exact a greater sympathy and feeling from the musicians who are playing for me. . . . Musicians can follow shirt cuffs better than an almost invisible baton...