Word: hugeness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...about $20,000,000, of which Miss Nichols' personal profit has been $5,000000.† And last week, after four years of bickering, a deal for the moving picture rights was completed. The terms were not made public. The Famous Players-Lasky Corp. supposedly gave Miss Nichols a huge cash payment and a percentage of receipts...
Many an amateur athlete is so only in name. He prefers huge expense accounts to a salary. West Virginia Wesleyan was forced to curtail football because it was learned that players there were receiving financial inducement to represent her on the gridiron. And now it is proposed that Lawrence High School should reward its athletes with scholarships...
...Corbett sisters appeared on the variety bill for the last day's program at the big convention of more than 5000 auto dealers held at Detroit. The huge audience in Masonic Temple hailed them as the best of the whole vaudeville program...
...massed unison by the great string quartets of the U. S. - Flonzaley, Pro Arte, Lenox, Vertchamp, with four bass viols in accompaniment. Under Mr. Rich's direction the musicians poured harmonies and melodies from Purcell's Suite in C Major. Into the rare acoustic treasuries of the huge auditorium later sounded the Mozart D Major, Saint-Saens's Le Deluge, Debussy's G Minor, Veracini's Concerto Grosso Bel. No medieval potentate had ever summoned forth such jeweled volumes of song in palace or cathedral. Next day the temple of music was again a trading...
...prehistoric monster; the Father Superior sends them to the circus, which they miss through absentmindedness, forgetting their monster with their destination. Not by grace but by slices of red beef does Brother Exuper tame the fearsome mastiff. The monument achieved by Brother Giles, after unseemly longing, is his huge foot print in a new cellar floor. By such simple means is the essence of a faith distilled, not for the saints but for the love...