Word: vastnesses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meanwhile, in the vast metropolitan necropolis, a great city's dead continued to accumulate. Some 200 coffins rested temporarily in vaults; more than 300 were placed in emergency ditches, which two steam shovels were kept busy lengthening...
Conservative Wall Street brokers last week were flabbergasted by a spirited defense of stock trading which, to many, signified a major sociological shift. Bishop James Cannon Jr. of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, who could speak for a vast rural constituency, had declared stock trading on thin margin was not gambling, was therefore not immoral. One reason for his vigorous declaration in behalf of Wall Street stock business was that he himself had been caught playing the market through a bucket-shop firm, now closed...
Mariners who sail into Liverpool in future years will behold vast spires shining through the smoke of the seaport. Last week Most Rev. Richard Downey, Archbishop of Liverpool, announced that, after years of subscription by Catholics rich and poor, nearly $1,000,000 had been raised, enough to begin work on the long-antici-pated Liverpool Cathedral. What the Archbishop added was exciting to religious folk. Said he: "Hitherto all cathedrals have been dedicated to saints. I hope this one will be dedicated to Christ Himself with a great figure surmounted on the cathedral visible for many a mile...
...vast difference lies between those people who work in Manhattan theatres in July and those who work in August. July is the lean theatrical month. Then it is that lowly, hopeful playwrights take advantage of the heat, the consequent emptiness and availability of theatres. They present their dubious plays with groups of actors who cannot afford to be particular...
...five months since March 4, Secretary Hyde has shown a patient persistence in carrying out his job. He is hardworking earnest, honest. What he lacks in brilliance he makes up in frankness. If he has brought no remarkable innovations to the vast departmental organization under him, he has at least kept it on an efficient basis, has played no politics with its appointments...