Word: hugeness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Staggering beneath a huge pine coffin, little brown men bore it through the streets of Tokyo last week, let it down at last with a thud on the doorstep of Premier Heijiro Wakatsuki's official residence...
...Great Price might have come up to the best Shubert tradition. As a morality play, its sly emphasis upon the fleshly temptations, its substitution of "Mammy" sentimentality for virtue, its salacious exaltation of a physical technicality to the plane of spiritual value damn it. It is simply a huge hypocrisy parading under a thin veil of moral pretense...
...huge bronze sow, so lifelike that it seemed to snuffle, was set up at Leuenberg, last week, upon an imposing pediment...
...Mexico a rich ostensorium which he received at the recent beatification of the French Revolutionary martyrs (TIME, Oct. 25). Next, a magnificent procession wound its way through crowded streets-towards the Coliseum, ancient centre of Paganism. In its midst, borne aloft on the shoulders of the faithful, was a huge cross. Made of wood, it contains pieces of olive trees from Gethsemane. It had been blessed in the Basilica of the Holy Cross. On a base containing a stone from Mount Calvary, it was set up in the centre of the Coliseum...
...reconsideration of the Jacksonville union wage scale for bituminous coal districts is to come up shortly, and as the result, foreboding consumers, fearing a possible strike, are buying supplies in huge quantities. Current shipments of bituminous are exceeding those of like periods of recent years. In Pittsburgh the retail price of bituminous, delivered to homes, rose to nine dollars a ton last week...