Word: behemothly
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Though the old Cinderella story alone always makes good entertainment, in "Irene" music, beauty, and a behemoth colored-mammy jitterbug are thrown in for good measure. Anna Neagle is the starryeyed girl with an Irish brogue who falls into fairyland. Ray Milland and Alan Marshall are the tail-coated sheiks who try to catch her. And when Ellis Island and Plymouth Rock don't quite fit together, May Robson is there to prove that you can't stop an O'Dair from the County Clare after he's caught sight of a goal or a bottle. As granny...
...Minnesota's behemoth Governor Harold Stassen, scouting in Washington for tips for his coming G. 0. P. keynote speech, emphasized his address would demand a real isolation policy...
...pound midget can find a partner his size under Lamar's new plan, and the man of 200 pounds likewise will be able to find a behemoth of his dimensions...
Last week in the March American Mercury Henry Louis Mencken flayed Franklin Roosevelt, with a blistering summary of the New Deal which closed with the statement: "There was a time when the Republicans were scouring the country for a behemoth to pit against him. Now they begin to grasp the fact that if they can beat him at all, which seems most likely, they can beat him with a Chinaman, or even a Republican...
...with the horselaugh predominant not only to the grave, but after the will is read. For purposes of keeping up morale and teaching the cardinal truths of life, any large paper could afford to hire, at princely salary, such a man as Gene Fowler . . . or Joel Sayre, a wandering behemoth who went to Hollywood. ... As balloon-prickers, daubers of stuffed shirts and philosophical pranksters such men are worth any dozen efficiency experts. . . ." After he has learned the million-and-one do's and don't's of technique, and "not to ask the city editor...