Word: hugeness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Under the Pacific Ocean the sea bed moved. Came a great rumble. A violent displacement sent huge rushes of water to the surface and an enormous wall of green sea arose from the depths to career with devastating force upon the Japanese island of Kiushiu, south of the main island of Hondo, upon which is situate Tokyo, capital city...
...scurried, twisting 'and twirling, in its wake, howling too. Off went tin roofs, shutters, sun-blinds; down came chimneys, many small houses and buildings; and over went freight cars. So rapidly went the roaring blast (60 yards wide) that many people working indoors were not aware of the huge whirlwind until it was raging 100 yards or so away. And so great was the debris that the railways were blocked for hours...
Elephant. When the same orchestra played outside the house of a twelve-year-old elephant named Poetre, she listened with polite and melancholy attention. As the wild oboes wailed, she bent her huge head in self-conscious sorrow. When the brass horns shouted, she flapped the floor with a map of Africa, her right ear. For violins and cellos, ehe rolled her small bright eye. Then, when the crazy, jazzy saxophone blew a blue note, Poetre filled the geyser-ish trumpet of her nose with air and water, blew out a moan more liquid than the trombone...
Died. Isadora Duncan, 47, famed danseuse; in Nice. One end of her red scarf caught in the front wheel of her motor; she was dragged from her seat and instantly killed. On her bier, her chauffeur laid a huge bouquet of flowers representing a month's earnings...
Dismissal of a huge extravaganza such as that which has held Chicago and, by radio and press, the entire nation spellbound, breathless and even unconscious, on the varying grounds that it was vulgar brutality, misdirected energy, or vapid inanity is begging the question in a conventional and entirely superficial fashion. The annual battle of the century may have been all of those things and many more, but since its power was so tremendous it can scarcely be passed off as just one of those things. The columns devoted to the private life, if they may be said to possess...