Word: hugeness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Kiely, said: "It is a manifest absurdity to permit political agitators and advocates of various governmental policies to utilize the United States mails to propagandize the public. . . ." The All-American Anti-Imperialist League replied by printing several thousand new stickers bearing the same legend plus a cartoon of a huge boot, with...
Purring forth along the Hillsborough road, on a moonless night, the Ducal motor was suddenly hailed by a plump, determined wench who had planted herself and a huge basket of eggs so strategically in the road that to circumvent either was impossible. Resolute, she wrenched open the limousine's door and clambered in, clutching her basket, slumping down cheerily beside His Grace, who is four times a baron, twice a marquis, twice a viscount, as well as being Earl and Duke of Abercorn. Wench and Duke rode on into Belfast, jointly steadying the eggs...
Chief of the industrial hives of Spain is Barcelona, where smart Hispano-Suiza motor cars are made, where boulevards are broad and new, where huge docks and sprawling factories are ever busy. Last week 70% of the workers in Barcelona struck, in protest against the imposition of an income tax upon small pay envelopes. The tax was levied by decree of Dictator-Premier-General Primo de Rivera, paunchy, florid, strong, who proposes to extend State assistance to the impoverished and lackadaisical farmers of Southern Spain at the expense of such industrialized Northern cities as Barcelona...
...first is a quantity of snow--the better to ski with, my dear. One is told that Jupiter-Pluvius, or whoever arranges such things, has never yet failed Dartmouth College. There has always been snow for Carnival. The night may have closed on a green world but dawn was huge drifts on the white Mountains...
...Capes. Both headed into the light, gusty wind. The dirigible dipped gently, close to the carrier; then bucked like a frightened horse. A vagrant gust tossed it 200 feet in air. Again it angled downward, its sensitive nose smelling the sea ship tentatively. Ropes were dropped, sailors dragged the huge sky ship closer, held it fast. A hose was hoisted aboard the Los Angeles. Refuelling was simulated; supplies, passengers exchanged...