Word: hugeness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Actually the stretcher bearers panted forth with a huge but unimportant Red Guard, one Artemiv Walkov. Lucky, he had escaped the Death which struck down his companion on guard duty, Michail Ivanov. No other casualties were reported...
President of the Duma Rodzianko, a man of huge physique, told thus of a similar encounter: "Rasputin faced me and seemed to run me over with his eyes; first my face, then the region of the heart, then again he stared me in the eyes. ... I, speaking literally, felt my own eyes starting out of my head. ... I felt myself confronted by an unknown, tremendous power...
...wind blew south and east, hurrying twelve huge inflated bags from Detroit to various spots remote and obscure in the Virginias. One great gas bubble, more enterprising than the rest, floated across the border and came to rest in North Carolina. Another settled in a dead tree on a hillside in the Blue Ridge Mountains...
...Huge on the front page of the New York Evening Journal (Hearst), last week, was a faithful photograph of John Davison Rockefeller. Big was the caption above: 88TH BIRTHDAY PARTY, and below: "John D. Rockefeller is celebrating his eighty-eighth birthday a day ahead of time." The Journal, unlike Mr. Rockefeller, was a year behind time. As every one knows, Mr. Rockefeller was 89 on July 8. But the New York Sun jumped the gun a year and said that Mr. Rockefeller...
...face in an expression of unbridled invitation. The editors published this photograph with the story about Margerita Sylva; there was no caption printed under it; it was not stated that it represented Margerita Sylva. The editors were confident that few Graphic readers would recognize Jeritza, even though similar huge pictures of her had adorned the same page only a few weeks before...