Word: hugeness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Jonson's play, done by the ambitious Theatre Guild. It does not open until Monday, but in the Guild's hands and acted by Alfred Lunt, Margalo Gilmore and Dudley Digges it cannot but be a huge success...
...House's four ladies, Mrs. Edith Nourse Rogers of Massachusetts and Mrs. Katherine Langley of Kentucky, were among the first passengers. William P. McCracken Jr., Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Air, was the master of ceremonies who ushered them into the cabin of a huge Fokker transport plane belonging to the Army. Lobbyist Lindbergh sat at the controls smiling. He taxied the length of the muddy field twice, then swooped the legislators around over Washington for a quarter-hour...
...Entering a huge, three-engined Imperial Airways plane, Amir Amanullah circled boldly over London, and was politely hailed by the British press as the first reigning sovereign to do so. Doubters recalled that Their Majesties the King and Queen of the Belgians have used the air route to and from the London airport of Croydon, though it is possible that they have never flown over that small and technical area of the Metropolis which is officially "The City...
Said a letter to the Boeing Air Transport Co. which is building a huge plane for service between Oakland, Calif., and Chicago: "I am a sophomore at Vanderbilt University and I am very much interested in commercial aviation. I would like very much to get a job on one of your planes as a messenger boy or page...
...huge pine tree caught fire in Leaf, Miss., and a bus full of school children started out for school. As the car bumped along the road, the tree tottered; when the car was precisely under it, the pine tree leaned slowly and fell, as true as a golden hammer, killing the driver and five of the children...