Word: hugeness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...trip from the Canyon to Cody, on the return to Black Hills, the President made in an automobile, proceeding along the famed Cody road. The picayune limousine in which he sat crawled up edges of huge and jagged mountains, reached finally the height of 9,000 feet above sea level. Never before, President Coolidge stated, had he climbed so high...
...other five Governors echoed his sentiments. The Californians knew very well that sparsely settled Arizona could not expect to develop all her water rights within 20 years. Populous California, on the other hand, needs water in her rich subdivision, Los Angeles, and elsewhere, and is ready to spend huge sums at once to get that water. The conferees pointed fingers at California's delegates and accused them of unfair bargaining. California protested that the 20-year clause was meant simply to protect one and all from the possibility of demands and projects by Mexico for Colorado water, which crosses...
...Manhattan. Rumor had it he was waiting to be paid $700 for his services. Another rumor said that Miss Vanzetti objected to further display of her brother's remains. The absence of one of the chief exhibits deflated but did not entirely halt the Union Square meeting. A huge clenched fist, representing Labor reared itself aloft in the intermittent rain while orators reiterated complaints of the masses...
...Signs. "You are over DULUTH." This type of sky sign was recommended by Secretary of Commerce Herbert C. Hoover in a letter to all state governors. He favored marking airways, painting the city's name in huge letters on the tops of highest buildings. Skeptics grumbled. Grumbling they asked if sky scenery must be defaced like roadway scenery by billboards...
Central Park, Manhattan, appears by day to be an ill-kept wasteland of stunted trees, ragged meadows, walks so tracked with gum-wrappers that they resemble the wake of a paper chase. At night not so; then the trees are like huge bundles of dark feathers, the lawns like scraps of green silk patterned with pathways. Here gum-chewers, muttering "loves me ... . loves me not . . ." as they tear the wrappers from their chiclets, take delight in strolling, in listening to the music coming from the Mall, where Edwin Franko Goldman conducts his band...