Word: gargantuans
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...lower depths in steaming content. Wide faces waxed into full-mooned laughter. Behind the relentless mask of the Third International, beaked sardonic visages relaxed in a sour smile, as the Pravda, famed Bolshevist sheetlet, brought them welcome tidings of nauseous conditions beyond the seas. A joke, a Gargantuan jest, had just been found to be on someone else...
...thought sophisticates, "he will exaggerate." And truly it would have been easy, in the blue evening, to misgage the acoustics of the gargantuan Bowl. But Sir Henry, wiser than his critics, made his effects as precisely as if he had been in a concert hall; brilliantly he conducted a rare Andante of Mozart's, an unfamiliar suite by Pur- cell, the first Los Angeles performance of three movements from The Planets by Gustav Hoist. Sir Henry had been encouraged to give some modern English music; he chose Ethel Smyth's On the Cliffs of Cornwall, a scene from...
...Reti of Czecho-Slovakia, who can play 25 games blindfolded, made an "oversight" which cost him a game in a few moves. Marshall of the U.S. held his own. But there was one man who played as if an immobile, enormous shape, looming unseen behind him, directed with Gargantuan fingers the movement of his smaller hands upon the Lilliputian kings. Once, it is true, he made a misplay, uncovered his queen. The watchers sucked in their breath. Surely now this Merlin was done for. But his opponent, Spielmann, did not see the opening; the next move set it right...
...Gargantuan fingers moved by an invisible power. (Page 20, column...
Brigham Young. Out of the welter of "spoken and written mendacity" concerning Mormonism, Mr. Dibble draws the picture of a gargantuan figure-ignorant, unscrupulous, tyrannical, lecherous and all- powerful. On the spiritual wife system he was "sealed" for all eternity to "more women than anyone could count...