Word: hugeness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dipped in the fresh breeze, rose for the first time to the top of the flagstaff there. Before the door of the white marble mansion, President Coolidge stood with his white collie, Rob Roy, posed for photographers, followed the dog over the threshold into his new home. Through the huge foyer he walked, past the costly Gobelin tapestry at his left, up the marble stairway lined with heads of mountain goats, lions, elk and caribou. Into the large room next to the library that is to be his workshop he stepped, paused, smiled at friendly objects: his desk, his favorite...
...night Signor Mussolini lies between silken sheets in a huge, carved bed at the Villa Torlonia. A massive prie dieu stands at his bedside. A domed and gilded ceiling canopies above. From the sumptuous milieu he rose up refreshed one morning last week and spoke biting words to French feminist Vahdah Jeanne Bordeaux, who interviewed him after breakfast on the topic "Women...
...Trades Union Hall, Moscow, a huge blood-red disc above the stage, bearing the Hammer and Sickle, emblems of Soviet Russia, was hung. A vast crowd surged- peasants in blouses, urban workers in tight, shoddy store clothes. They had come to hear the first public speech in four months by Russia's greatest orator, famed Leon Trotzky. All knew that M. Trotzky had been silent perforce, following the crushing of his section of the Communist party by Dictator Josef Stalin (TIME, Oct. 25). When Comrade Trotzky slipped upon the stage last week, pale, wiry, magnetic, there was stamping, applause...
When first the huge city was flashed upon the screen, its structures stretching with geometric relentlessness into the infinite heavens, its enormous pistons thumping, dynamos roaring, cogwheels whirring, it was agreed that nothing so immense, grand, complete had ever been comprehended by the eye. For a while it seemed as if one would behold an entire civilization revealed from an Olympian vantage point, would glimpse its heart palpitating beneath steel ribs. Then the scenario took hold, reduced the magnificent spectacle to the condition of a god smothered with a dishrag...
There were two large reclining figures, each on a huge base. "These was once together, 'Day and Night' or something'. Well, we had to cut them apart and spoil the story. I wonder how they ever got 'em in over there to begin with. Then, take this, its a bowler, or a walter heavin' dishes, I don't now." He pointed to the Discobulus with a slight welt on its chest...