Word: huges
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...couples met in a huge Left Bank apartment. They had foregathered to practice the latest Parisian intellectual pretension-intimatism. Present were the high priest of the movement, dynamic René Sébille, 34, and some of his ardent disciples. The men were journalists and writers. The girls were young and pretty...
Planes swooped and circled outside Southampton as the huge Queen Elizabeth saluted her older sister with deep-throated blasts. Some 700 Cunard White Star guests, including a covey of admirals and a duke, were aboard to enjoy the ocean breezes in new super-deckchairs and gaze greedily at the shop windows in the promenade. The rich goods on display were held under customs seal until the Mary's first overseas passage this week, but there were free champagne, cocktails, candy and cigarets for everybody and a larder full of food, the like of which Britons had not seen...
Last week Producer Wu gave in, agreed to cut some of the offending scenes. His scheme had worked, but in reverse. The oversensitive barbers had unwittingly publicized the film all over China. The box-office take would be huge...
...scratch the moist soil. They found water, and at last the lake appeared. But when the slave traders came, the doves left and the place was pervaded by evil. Yet a prophecy promised that when the doves returned, so would the good times. One day in 1941 a huge silvery Pan Am seaplane came circling over the water. The oldest chief squinted and declared: "The doves have come...
Howard Hughes, plane-builder being investigated by a Senate committee, retorted "circus ballyhoo" to a subpoena from the committee and said that he couldn't make it until Wednesday because of business. His business--at least with the government ordered, huge flying boat--was reported as possibly costing the U.S. an extra...