Word: gargantuanism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ketchup into Sullivan's score, Tropical Pinafore shifted base from foggy England to a banana-bright Caribbean isle. Opening with a jungle chant that Sullivan neglected to write, it burst into syncopation when a huge, black, big-bosomed Little Buttercup appeared, calling Dick Deadeye picklepuss and shaking her gargantuan hips...
Last week Buna took out its final U. S. naturalization papers. Its sponsor was its godfather, gargantuan Standard Oil Co. (N. J.), which has research relationships with Germany's I. G. Farbenindustrie, had a laboratory seat in the development of Buna from German coal gases and limestone. Its first residence will be Baton Rouge, where, Standard announced last week, a plant will be built to turn out Buna beginning late this year (capacity 10,000 Ib. a day), under the management of two subsidiaries-sales-minded Standard of Louisiana, research-minded Standard Oil Development...
...energy is certainly still Gargantuan, and he still keeps tabs on everything and everyone. Last week he conferred with Count Dino Grandi on the codification of labor laws; talked with Hungarian Premier Count Teleki; witnessed experiments with thermite incendiary bombs and defenses against them; rewarded aviators and received journalists who served in the Spanish war; turned the crank of an invention designed to extract iron ore from black sand along the coast near Rome; conferred with Crown Prince Umberto about that half of the Army which the Prince commands...
...realism and fantasy seldom mix even in the Amazon jungle. Result: the plight of the miniature actors, dodging for their lives behind a huge can of pork & beans, peering up at a towering rooster or laboriously sawing themselves slices of gargantuan boloney, is less frightening than funny...
Years of Wrath. Göring's gargantuan lust for living may be glandular, or it may simply be overcompensation for years of privation, despair and wrath. Certain it is that much of his ruthlessness was acquired during World War I and while he was an obscure revolutionary, hating the "Jewish republic." More than Hitler or Goebbels or the late Ernst Röhm, who were abnormal anyway, Göring is a product of Germany's generation of defeat, of which Erich Maria Remarque has written...