Word: huges
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Stanley Zasadzdniski dug many a grave. He rose through the dead to be, aged 42, a foreman in huge Calvary Cemetery, New York City. Two weeks ago he and some 300 fellow gravediggers stopped digging, struck for higher wages (TIME, Aug. 12). If Foreman Zasadzdniski had dug just one more grave, for himself, he would have been just in time. Last week he was shot dead in the graveyard as he lead strikers against a busload of strikebreakers...
...fatuities were required simply for the sake of convention. It is a picture for people who like love on yachts and among the members of High Society. Billie Dove, beautifully dressed, dark-eyed, slightly abstracted, seems only remotely concerned with it. Silliest shot: frustrated Rod La Rocque smashing a huge bowl ornamented with mermaids in action...
...James Stevens (Minor Watson), the tweedy young family lawyer, meets the issue by claiming to be the prospective father. He has loved Joyce all along and now proposes marriage. She blissfully agrees, and has the girlish pleasure of telling him that she is still virgin. In the meantime a huge, philosophic iceman has similarly forgiven the errant housemaid and taken her to a priest. What he refers to as the "escopode" is thus nobly closed...
Shifting the grounds of the debate, the French and Italians launched emotional tirades, recalled that huge cuts had been made in their original claims against Germany, rehearsed their "sacrifices" in accepting the Young Plan...
...stubborn Charles XII of Sweden gave up hope of beating Russia's huge black-haired Peter the Great, signed the Peace of Nystad. Among lands ceded to Russia at that time, was flat marshy Dagö Island at the mouth of the Gulf of Finland, not far from St. Petersburg itself. Twenty years before, Dagö Island had been colonized by good industrious Swedes who fished in the Gulf and made hay on the salt marshes. In 1787, Peter's grand-daughter-in-law, plump, passionate Catherine II grew tired of this Swedish colony practically at her doorstep...