Word: hugeness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...curtain is an original oil painting by Claxton Byron Moulton, and is in effect a huge tapestry, measuring 33 feet in width by 17 feet in height...
...Have you ever noticed in the North End of Boston, for example," he went on, "a large funeral of some fifteen or twenty automobiles and huge loads of flowers, accompanying the burial of some obscure laborer? The collegia, in the time of the Empire, were associations of a very similar nature to those which provide the North End funerals. The Aryan faith required that a man have a decent burial, and for those who could not provide one, the funeral associations existed. While the Christians only inhumed the bodies of the deceased, the pagans used cremation as well...
...huge Palace of Westminster, called the Houses of Parliament, the lords and mighty prelates of the Realm were sitting on benches of soft red morocco. The King and Queen were on their thrones-His Majesty bedight with "the ermine, the purple and the crown." Queen Mary's robe of cloth-of-silver, blazing with diamonds, betokened that the Court is no longer in mourning for the late Queen Alexandra...
When statistics covering the Panama Canal tolls for January were released last week, His Majesty's Government was discovered to have paid $18,500 toll to the Government of the U. S. in order that the Renown, a huge and potent warcraft, might pass through the Canal carrying the Duke and Duchess of York, sailing toward Australia (TIME...
...through the streets borne by scores of coolies. Over 500 wounded soldiers were brought in during the week from the battle lines defending Shanghai;† but simultaneously Shanghai Chinese were calling at one another's homes to pay off debts contracted during the old year and to present huge New Year's "cards" on thin red paper. New China was embattled; but old China was celebrating...