Word: hugeness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...share the fame of other Wrigley products, "Spearmint," "Doublemint," "Juicy Fruit." He still keeps in close touch with his business and when in Chicago eats lunch in the restaurant on the main floor of the white Wrigley Building which towers like a huge birthday cake beside an oily curve of the Chicago river. Snobbish Chicagoans who see him eating there are impressed with what they call the democracy of this great millionaire who was once a soap crutcher. In modern times soap is crutched or mixed by a machine but in the soap factory of William Wrigley Sr., opposite Wayne...
...which the government is making with respect to chemical and other advanced methods of warfare. They are being actively pressed by French scientists." In Nottingham, England, last week wiry Welshman David Lloyd George, suffering from a bad cold, said the MacDonald doings were "only a beginning" and bitterly flayed "huge war equipment." "In view of the Versailles Treaty," said he, between sniffs, "and the covenant of the League of Nations, this equipment is a farce, a discredit and a dishonor as well as a menace. Is a nation going to refer its vital issues to arbitration when it has millions...
...those actors who are perennially the same, who year in and year out, choose the same sort of ingratiating part for themselves, and when a new one fails to appear, and they find themselves faced with joblessness, set to work and revive an old one. Sometimes they make huge hits that way. More often they fail miserably. And still more often they turn out to be the kind of undistinguished, evenly flowing, slightly more than mediocre production that wended its quiet way across the proscenium of the Plymouth Theatre last night...
Yellow-haired Frances Williams sings the show's best song, Bottoms Up, in her slithering, urgent voice. To this ditty Producer White dances a strenuous routine (successor to his Charleston, Black Bottom). The carnivals of Europe have inspired huge, mechanical grotesques which loom now and then behind the players - a shaggy Beast rolls its head and eyes while Beauty pirouettes; an enormous dummy jazz band swoops and sways. Meanwhile Willie Howard talks Jewish, and the Abbott dancers from Chicago tap dance on their toes. Ousted from the bed of a married woman, a clown exclaims : "Believe...
Painter Orozco is almost a pure Spaniard. He dresses like a U. S. druggist, wears thick glasses, a huge mustache. In boyhood his left hand was blown off by a firecracker. Critics have used him as a butt for their most malicious onslaughts, attributing to him the "soul of an old prostitute," finding every vice in his drawings. Not only in Mexico has he been harassed. Once he tried to cross the border with a batch of drawings and was stopped by U. S. customs officials. They decided that the drawings were obscene and destroyed over a hundred...