Word: gargantuanism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gargantuan Dartmouth midfield squad broke loose in the third period of Saturday's lacrosse game, scored seven times, and handed the Crimson Varsity its second league loss of the season, this one by a 14 to 3 count...
...immediately bought her a big charcoal-broiled steak. There was a wild, backwoods look about him. He seldom wore socks and liked to take his shoes off when he ate; he enjoyed wiggling his enormous toes and grinding ice cubes between his gargantuan molars. As time wore on, he sometimes borrowed money from her. But she loved him madly anyhow. She swore they had lived as husband and wife...
...pieces of the Gargantuan magnet for the new cyclotron arrived in Cambridge yesterday, nuclear research at the University took a seven-league-booted stride...
Wrote Fertig: ". . . This advertisement was illustrated by a Gargantuan, vicious-looking creature, dressed in formal coat, silk hat, wing collar and white vest adorned by a huge gold chain . . . supposed to represent 'old line management.' It is a replica of the stock character employed by Communists to represent Capital. ... It tells the American public that everyone who manages our railroads (and, by association of ideas, all owners of capital) is cruel, lazy and indecent ... pariahs feeding off the poor laboring man. Such a concept, as it gains ground in the mass mind, allows for no exceptions. Ironically enough...
...reading into her offstage life some of Joan's ethical dilemmas. While this plot frame is not palpitatingly new, Anderson constructs within it some striking situations. We have here, then, a morality play, and just so you'll be sure to get his point, Anderson drives it home with gargantuan strokes of his ideological sledgehammer. Nothing political, of course: mainly a muddy discussion of ends, means, and ought-we-to-do-its that would scarcely tax the reflective powers of a Cambridge High junior. The point--that, like Joan, we may have to make small, bitter concessions in serving...