Word: hugeness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...succeed Col. White, President Coolidge nominated for promotion Assistant Treasurer H. Theodore Tate, another Tennesseean. Figuratively speaking, Mr. Tate picked up the pen laid down by Col. White and upon a large white sheet of paper executed his own autograph in huge script. The signature was sent to the photo-engraver to be reduced and reproduced upon new Federal currency. Mr. Tate would not let people see how he had signed his name until after his confirmation by the Senate...
Henry Ford watched pensively, last week, while a line of motor cars no bigger than bathtubs moved briskly toward completion in the huge, humming plant of Morris Motors Ltd., at Cowley, England...
...always, business was stimulated by the spectacular. Spread out over the waspish little ship in which Bleriot first flew across the English Channel, stood the huge trimotored plane in which Commander Richard E. Byrd hopes to conquer the Antarctic. Opposite stood a model of the first Wright machine, in which man first made an honest flight a quarter of a century...
Beside the huge Fokker in which Byrd flew over the North Pole, the Josephine Ford, stood the yellowed Pride of Detroit, one of three trim Stinson planes, in which William Brock and Edward Schlee flew from Newfoundland to Japan, almost three-quarters of the way around the world...
...that it has ever failed to give one one's money's worth, but this week the Metropolitan gives interest--huge interest--in that Cupid-like "Barnum of Bandland," the rotund Paul Whiteman. But it has long been our opinion that Paul not only possesses his share of avoirdupois but also a proportionate amount or that something known as "it." To say the least, he and his music fill the mammoth Met stage as it has never been filled before with beats and throbs and sobs of soulful syncopation. In fact, Paul, surrounded by a more admirable bevy of beauties...