Word: hugeness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Bold barons of finance afloat on a huge white yacht. Big names: Sir Alfred Mond "Biggest British Chemist," Irénée du Pont, and many another. Germans the hosts. Secret talk about nitrates. The yacht steams down the blue Adriatic from Venice to Corfu and returns. Meanwhile banqueting to tempt Lucullus. Scuppers running with champagne. But always more and more earnest talk of nitrates. The whole junket an achievement in making pleasure implicit with business...
Dictator and Wife dwell with their only child in rooms of spartan simplicity within the frowning, huge-walled Kremlin. No Soviet news organ, magazine or book is permitted to reveal personal news of this seclusive Caesar's wife...
Even a savage knows that the world is a place of magic; he wonders what huge invisible hand draws the sun down into darkness, with what inaudible, dark charm a man is taken, suddenly and forever, out of the world, into an unreal place. This last trick puzzles even people who know just how all the others are accomplished. When someone dies whom they have known, they may go to witch-doctors called mediums who pretend that by saying hocus-pocus or by going into a trance, they can make dead people say things to people who are living. This...
Fund. Though this huge sum will not have to be budgeted until 1929, a fund from which it may be drawn was proposed, last week, by Chancellor Churchill as a feature of his new Budget. He destined for this fiscal nest egg the budgetary surplus for the year just past, amounting to ?4,250,000. Further to swell the fund, Mr. Churchill established last week, to take effect at once, an increased tax of four pence per gallon on automotive gasoline and oils-a tax which he declared will bring in ?14,404,000 ($70,000,000) this year...
...into the largest and perhaps the most blatant exhibit at the convention. Huge electric signs gleamed: "CHAMPION OF THE WORLD," "WORLD'S GREATEST NEWSPAPER." Printed matter told how the Tribune had licked Mayor Thompson & friends; how, because of the Tribune, "Chicago can again walk proudly among the cities!-and the class in advertising may now step up and learn a lesson from the politicians...