Word: hugeness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Feng Yu-hsiang, the "War Lord" who possesses a huge mobile army and is now skulking in Honan province was reported "tirelessly engaged," last week, in preparing for his long heralded Spring onslaught upon Peking, a capital which he has several times captured. On the last oc- casion he was, of course, finally driven from Peking by Chang Tso-lin (TIME...
...shadows of a picturesque despair. Now, under a title which is highly absurd and which has reference to nothing except the box-offices of small-town theatres, with a background of South American rather than Italian roads and castles, is told the medieval legend of Paolo and Francesca. A huge, hunchbacked, hirsute grandee marries a small and beautiful lady who loves his handsome brother. When the hunchback goes away to war, love for each other overcomes pity and discretion in the wife and brother. Told, by a villainous clown, of their misconduct, the hunchback gallops home to make sure...
...street corner evangelists. Dr. Jefferson speaks to his large audiences quietly, in the tone of courteous, dignified, lucid and friendly conversation. He does so in the Broadway Tabernacle, Manhattan, a church situated on the boundary of that bright, dangerous region in which ignorant and reckless ladies derive a huge profit from services best left undescribed, in which thieves and theatre managers flourish...
...countless shipyards along the snow blown coast, yachts are perched on stanchions like huge huddled birds, shivering, waiting for spring. Yachtsmen puff their pipes solemnly at home, telling stories, wagering on races before summer winds. Yachtsmen pore over specifications, they telephone brokers, they enviously peruse stories in the newspapers of other yachtsmen building palaces that float. Last week arrived in New York the Savarona, longest motor yacht in the world, built at Wilmington, Del., for Mrs. Richard M. Cadwalader, of Philadelphia. Experts, friends, reporters scrambled along her decks absorbing her astounding luxuries, delved in her engine rooms peering at gauges...
Vincent Astor tutored valiantly to enter Harvard, whence after a year undistinguished scholastically, socially tranquil, he departed when his father disappeared with the Titanic. Since leaving Cambridge he has handled, somewhat gingerly, his huge heritage of real estate, an able but not an avid realtor...