Word: gargantuans
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...when the amount of printed matter has approached Gargantuan proportions a segregation of good literature from bad has its place. However, beyond certain definite limits it do not particularly useful for anyone but the critic Books, like experience, are different in the minds of the individual reader. The opinion of any one man on the relative merits of every volume that has ever been published can be of little assistance and importance to the average intelligent reader. Analyses of this sort lead into the land of vague generalization where perhaps the traveller might find some of the characters...
Clifton Webb, staggering around a weird barroom full of grotesque, masked figures, some of whom sway in cadence on rockered bar stools, some of whom drink from gargantuan champagne glasses filled by two-headed attendants. Climax comes when Mr. Webb seizes and strips one of the patrons, rushes her offstage...
...being built gave the Vagabond some idea of the extent and annoyance of noise. Of course that was only in the day time, but even then there was considerable disturbance. On the uninviting shores of Massachusetts Avenue with its constant stream of rather noisy commerce the situation assumes Gargantuan proportions, but that remains in the future...
...dialog sequences, so simple is the story of a fighter momentarily distracted from his boyhood sweetheart by the wiles of attractive Olga Tschechowa. Fighter Schmeling, composed and earnest, is helped through his scenes by considerate direction; he is more convincing when amorous than during a tedious fight with a gargantuan opponent in which both cock their punches for the camera. The stage fights of one-time Champion Jack Dempsey, experienced vaudevillian and actor, with Estelle Taylor Dempsey, in the Manhattan play The Big Fight, were more realistic than this picture, but Dempsey acted on the whole more self-consciously than...
Back in Kreuznach the old Feldmar-schall rallied quickly, drank of Rhenish wine from a gargantuan flagon which Bismarck and Kaiser Wilhelm I drained between them on their return from the Franco-Prussian...