Word: gargantuans
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...endless picaresque costume novels that sprang from the huge success of Anthony Adverse (1,224 pages) and Gone With the Wind (1,037 pages), this one has two distinctions. It is one of the longest (1,176 pages) and it is Viking's first gamble with this gargantuan species. Being in other respects no better and no worse than other imitators, it spreads sail before some of the steadiest book-trade-winds that blow...
...mechanical buzz saw. The old hell-roaring, ripsnorting days of Jigger Jones (the Maine woodsman who could kick the knots off a spruce log with his bare feet), of loggers who slept with their axes and gouged out each other's eyes, would soon be gone forever. The Gargantuan legend of Paul Bunyan was more legendary than ever...
...comment on Secretary Knox's rip-roaring speech for using the Navy to clear the seas was 53% against to 25% for. But ex-President Hoover's speech saying that Germany's attack on Russia made the whole argument for the U.S. going to war a "Gargantuan jest" (TIME, July 7) won applause from 58% of the press-more than has applauded him in years-and criticism from only...
Below the Pripet Marshes, the offensive went more slowly, because before it could roll, the formidable frontier fortress of Przemysl had to be stormed. And near Luck the Russians offered up a Gargantuan tank battle...
...could do. Major Stanley Umstead, the Air Corps's crack, cigar-chewing test pilot, climbed aboard; his crew of six trailed after him. Stanley Umstead started the four engines from left to right, kicking up a great williwaw of dust as he turned them up. He wheeled the Gargantuan bomber down the field, swung her into the wind, gave her the coal. Rolling hugely down the runway, she picked up her skirts slowly. But she was off, wobbling a bit-her feel was still strange to the man at the controls-in a run of 2,000 feet. Lightened...