Word: huges
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...TIME, July 15). Last week Habibullah heard that one of his favorite generals had just been captured by the Nadir Khan. Cringing, the messenger gibbered to the flashing-eyed king that his general and the general's staff had been boiled alive by the Nadir Khan in a huge, sizzling cauldron of vegetable...
Plainly the Tyranny of Capital and the Tyranny of Labor between which a humanitarian President is trying to establish "equilibrium" were both furiously suspicious, last week, of the Labor Code which Señor Fortes Gil and his huge agrarian following in the Mexican Congress can put through if they stubbornly so choose...
...Story. Guèret was a huge stoop-shouldered young man, his full and sallow face had a fleshy nose, thick lips, grey eyes, a blighted look. He worked as tutor to small André Grosgeorge. Once Madame Grosgeorge surprised the two in the garish lesson-room when André was stumbling over his history. Guèret heard the softness in her voice as she called her son: "Come closer. . . . Raise your head and look at me." Then, clenching her teeth, she struck the boy suddenly across the face and with sadistic greed in her black eyes, watched the red mark fade. Horrified...
Fortnight ago Banker T. V. Soong told his brother-in-law President Chiang Kai-shek that China's huge military establishment must be curtailed. Otherwise, he said, not even the House of Soong could keep China's treasury from going bankrupt. When President Chiang-onetime field marshal and conqueror of all China-hesitated to yield, Banker Soong handed in his resignation as Finance Minister, was soon and repeatedly begged by the President to withdraw it, refused (TIME, Aug. 19). Last week the brothers-in-law held a further series of earnest conferences at Shanghai. In the end Banker...
Cross-featured, huge, is Mexico's genial Diego Rivera (TIME, May 6). Expression of proletariat life is his art; conversation his hobby. Last week through his art and his hobby Artist Rivera became the centre of a political controversy...