Word: vastnesses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...exchange, Mr. Bishop acquired control of the Anderson Galleries. No real estate, no stock, not even a chipped picture frame changed hands. By buying the Anderson Galleries, Mr. Bishop had merely purchased access to its clientele, the opportunity to pay rent on an old four-story building, and a vast quantity of that dubious commodity described, in financial sheets and aeronautical despatches, as "goodwill...
...Buffalo Bill, from wretched demimondaines who imagine that their dreary chirpings, their horrid -amusements bear a close resemblance to the more graceful if less temperate indiscretions of the immortal Ninon. The history of her long and erratic career (1615-1705) is well recounted by Author Austin, without evidence of vast research, in his shallow, swift running style. He regards her misdemeanors with a sympa- thetic eye, is careful to point out that her liaisons often cooled to life-long friendships. Well he describes her receiving, in the convent to which she had been temporarily remanded by the Queen of France...
...mander Charles E. Rosendahl of the Los Angeles exultantly. The test proving that floating filling stations are feasible, widened immeasurable the range of dirigible utility. Commercial dirigible interests eagerly proclaimed that transoceanic airship travel was a more immediate probability now that dirigibles may nose safely down to the vast smooth expanse of landing deck superimposed on aircraft mother ships. The flying deck of the Saratoga is 880 ft. long; the Los Angeles...
...unbowed. I could, except for my pride . . . on yet. I have my pride . . . tell you the story of my childhood. You would pity me then. It would rate an A. My father hit me on the head with a paper-weight, one summer by the sea, bluer than a vast, incalculable blue book, gleaming in the sun. Beauty. But there is no need to tell you this. You could never appreciate it. Permit me, with my sincerest congratulations upon an examination flawless in its inscrutability, to remain yours, etc., (not sent...
...done, officials of the Exchange made an announcement bare and ominous ?the amount of money loaned to brokers had risen to $4,432,907,321, a sum so vast that brokers slept uneasily, fearing that money vendors might suddenly demand repayment of loans or blandly ask for higher interest payments...