Word: hugeness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Georgia Barbecue. A mingling of whites and blackamoors occurred last week in Woodland, Ga. The scene was a huge barbecue, given by a group of Caucasians for the Negroes of the vicinity. Members of the two races ran foot races toi gether, feasted together, laughed, gossiped. There was a baseball game for Negroes only. The chief white speakers, H. A. Alsobrooks and John Rigden, agricultural agents for railroads, lauded the Negroes for their thrift and industry, urged them to buy more farms and stay in the South. The Rev. J. R. Cason, Negro, replied that the Georgia white...
Electricians were busy last week on the roof of a hotel in Charlottes ville, Va. Three miles away, across a valley, stood Monticello, old home of Thomas Jefferson. The electricians were adjusting a search light to play on Monticello, a searchlight so huge that were Mon ticello a mile nearer, the dazzling light would artificially "sunburn" a person standing on the old colonial porch at midwinter midnight. The special function for which the light was being got ready was a spectacle in honor of the Institute of Public Affairs which opened last week at the University of Virginia...
Long ago?in the early spring of 1924?Congress embarked upon the task of succoring the farmer. Two plans were vigorously suggested: 1) the McNary-Haugen bill which provided for a huge Government brokerage corporation to buy the farmers' crops and virtually fix the market prices, operating expenses being paid by an equalization fee (crop tax), collected from the farmers; 2) the Norbeck-Burtness bill which would aid the agrarian by lending him Government money...
...seven-year term was reduced automatically to five. Even this was cut down a few days last week by the prison authorities who had reason to think that if Horatio Bottomley was released on the date previously announced he would be met at the prison door by a huge admiring crowd of onetime soldiers, race-track folk, stage people and vague legions of "the lower classes." To prevent this scandal, the prisoner was hustled out of jail and despatched to his Sussex home in a discreet motor...
...putts at first but his second score, a 71, was a portent. Less whiskery than Tom Morris Jr. but quite as serious, "Bawby" started the tournament proper by playing four holes steadily and, at the 530-yard fifth hole, putting his second shot on the edge of the huge plateau green. Peering off at the cup about 40 yards away, he said: "This is the longest putt I ever had to make." He sank the putt...