Word: brobdingnagianized
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...Primo Camera, Italian brobdingnagian: A bout from one Jack McAuliffe, thirteenth set-up of his current tour, in Denver, by a knockout in the first round...
...Argentine polo team-Manuel Andrada, Jose and Juan Reynal, Alfredo Harrington-handicapped at 23 goals, with a $250,000 string of ponies: their tenth straight game on the Pacific coast against teams of famed U. S. stars including 8-goalers Elmer Boeseke and Eric Pedley. ¶ Primo Camera, Italian brobdingnagian: a bout with one Frank Zavita in Jacksonville, Fla., by a knockout (eleventh by Camera in the U. S.) with a right to the ribs...
...Paris, cocky William Lawrence ("Young") Stribling touched gloves again with Primo Carnera, the Brobdingnagian Italian carpenter who recently beat him on a foul (TIME, Dec. 9). In the clinches Stribling strained and sweated against a body 85 Ibs. heavier, 12½ in. taller than his own. In the sixth round he hit Carnera in the stomach. Carnera's vast legs buckled. He knelt a minute, then rose. In the seventh round little Stribling's punches angered Carnera. A strange expression contorted his wide face. The bell was ringing as he rushed at Stribling, swung at him three...
Roused perhaps by "Oxford bags", a British lady whose native tact causes her to remain anonymous has recently undertaken the brobdingnagian task of reforming man's dress. She seems to have begun with the idea of how uncomfortable the poor dears must be in stiff collars, boiled shirts, dragging trousers, "kidney-exposing waistcoats", and everything else that makes the male a pleasing object, at least to himself; and ends with the suggestion that, discarding all such modifications of the strait-jacket, men attire themselves in gaudy jumper blouses, short fur coats, bright colored pajamas and shoes of vivid leathers...
...Flagler, Standard Oil Magnate, by Mrs. Max Goldreich, New Zitta, Germany, whose husband ("Professor Armand Sullivan") conducted a physical culture parlor in Manhattan. As possible assuagement for charges not made public, $100,000 was named. In the pages of metropolitan dailies was revealed the face of a marcelled Brobdingnagian, beetle-browed, curly-lipped...