Word: huges
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rich Old Man was the celebrated Harry Gordon Selfridge who, as everyone knows, worked his way up through Marshall Field's Chicago department store before leaving the U. S. and setting himself up in England with a huge store of the same kind, a huge house in the centre of London, four children, and many dear friends, among whom the Dolly sisters are surely the most intimate...
...Khan is a descendant of the True Prophet, and a gallant gentleman. "Take this, Ma'm'selle," he said, handing her a huge oblong chip. "I make only one condition. You must never play baccarat again...
...same kind. The lucky girl is a midinette who, after an innocent cohabitation with the hero in the environs of Montparnasse, almost loses him to a sweet and tough country girl whom his father wishes him to marry. This difficulty is soon adjusted, with the aid of a huge funny waiter, played by Billy House. Billy House moved about the stage like a grinning Guava jelly, singing "Whoopee" with suave insinuations. The girls in the chorus, though they danced well, looked, with one, or possibly two, exceptions, as if they had been chosen from the occupants of an East Side...
...because the contestants were famous, but because they used different and interesting styles of wrestling. The Bahian lout fought after the manner of Brazilian capoeira. This is the national style of fighting; it includes blows as well as grips and it was perfected, as might be imagined, by a huge band of Hoodlums who once terrorized Rio de Janeiro. Even kicks in the head are allowed and the Bahia Negro attempted these, without avail, against his little foeman...
...Coney Island, N. Y., one Ali Afgudiniali, a Hindu watchman, was robbed by three men. With two of them he fought bravely but when he saw that the third was a midget not more than a yard high with a huge horrible head and the hands of a pudgy baby, he tried to run away...