Word: gargantuans
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Deputies of the Imperial Diet hurled Gargantuan phonetic sequences at one another in a loud and angry tone. In the galleries, fist fights were of frequent occurrence. The Kensei-kai and the Seiyu-kai (chief political parties) were at it again, with the Seiyu-honto alternately baiting and encouraging both. There was drawing to a close perhaps the stormiest session of the Imperial Diet in many years. Reijiro Wakatsuki. Above the squabbling undersized Deputies towered an old man, six feet in his stockings, who is still the amateur jiu-jitsu champion of Japan despite his 60 years. As a schoolboy...
...Such were the Gargantuan interludes which Prince Bismarck could conjure about him like a spell. His wife, Johanna von Puttkamer, was of a milder temper. Yet their daughter got on well with her mother, too. In the Princess Bismarck's absence she presided over the famed Yellow Salon so graciously that a newspaper of the day declared: "She has become a remarkably fine woman, whose wit and intelligence are the theme of general praise...
...little bulb horn whizzed up to the door. Out stepped the returning U.S. Ambassador to Spain, Alexander Pollock Moore, onetime husband of the late Lillian Russell. Mr. Moore was welcomed with acclaim. From his native Pittsburgh to Madrid he is known as a good fellow cast in the Gargantuan mold...
Colleges erect immense new buildings, install new systems, set enrolment limits in the thousands--in short, strain every resource to accommodate more thousands. To what end? Their Gargantuan efforts have certainly not blessed the world with a new Republic of wisdom and virtue. No one but a blind optimist would pretend so. What the mammoth machine has done is to make society over by creating a new class which has given the characteristic color to American life: a complacent, materialistic, pleasure-seeking class of half-educated men and women...
...When the Gargantuan tumult subsided, 26 parties had gained seats for one or more of their adherents. Observers remarked that little Latvia may well claim to have more identifiable factions than any other republic. The new Parliament, when it assembles, will be called upon to elect the Latvian President...