Word: mammoth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Altogether the eighth "Follies" is one of those mammoth spectacles which, beginning in Boston, ultimately reaches New York without a single number of the opening night left in it. There it will not create a sensation but it will certainly carry on an old tradition before audiences which like its wares. Were it for its beautiful girls alone it would be played before capacity audiences. While Ziegfeld has his production on a higher plane of humor he certainly will have to look to the laurels of his "glorified" girls. After all, why are the "Follies" so popular if not because...
Placid Leader Baldwin did not thereafter greatly bestir himself, last week, except to take delivery of a mammoth "Peace Letter" signed by "128,770 British citizens all above 16 years of age" who stated ominously that they "will hereafter refuse to render war service to any government...
General Motors' earnings have been potent this year.*A silent, motionless unmarketed Ford has helped their heyday. Characteristic was their method of passing them on to stockholders. "Extras" (bonuses), said the directors' statement, will be continued. The policy is contrary to that of some other mammoth U. S. corporations. Recently Walter Sherman Gifford, president of the American Telephone & Telegraph Co., frowned on "melons" (TIME, Oct. 31). "Put the extra money back into the business for expansion and development," was his explanation to his 420,000 disappointed stockholders...
...with memories of his famed battle "thick as autumnal leaves that strew the brooks of Vallom-brosa," Germany's greatest warrior showed no sign of emotion as he approached the mammoth octagon memorial, surmounted by huge, lofty towers. Said he to the dense mass of people around...
Similarly, excavators at Venice, Fla., turned up a mammoth's skeleton, nearly intact. Near Alva, Okla., Dr. James W. Gidley of the Smithsonian Institution dug up another mammoth; also parts of a giant sloth. Near Sarasota, Fla., Dr. Gidley found a deep bed rich with bones for future investigation...