Word: gargantuas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...word was passed to get Maxwell, and eleven Penn men made a game try, aiming at the Swarthmore gargantua each play, and battering him in between times. But Maxwell stuck it out. When he left the field, his head was bloody but unbowed. A photographer snapped him, and soon the picture got into the hands of President Theodore Roosevelt. The rough-and-ready leader was so enraged he threatened to ban football forever if this kind of playing was not stopped...
François Rabelais warned his readers to be careful with Gargantua and Pantogruel. "Following the dog's example," he told them, "you will have to be wise in sniffing, smelling, and estimating these fine and meaty books; swiftness in the chase and boldness in the attack are what is called for; after which, by careful reading and frequent meditation, you should break the bone and suck the substantific marrow...
...Benedictine habit, and went absent without leave on a grand tour of the French universities. He became first a theologian, then a lawyer, then a doctor-in all, one of the most erudite men of his age. He was almost 40 when he began writing his tales of Gargantua and Pantagruel, partly for love of writing, but partly for need of money...
Oracle of the Bottle. His Gargantua and Pantagruel is the history of a dynasty of easygoing giants. At Gargantua's birth (from his mother's left ear), 17,913 cows were required for his feeding. Pantagruel, his son, needed only 4,600 cows, but he was so vigorous that he ate one of the cows, and had to be bound in his crib with the chain later used for young Lucifer when he had the colic. When Pantagruel goes to Paris, he meets Panurge, a gay dog who knows 63 ways to make money and 214 to spend...
...less pastoral soul, spring means the grand parade from South Station to the Boston Garden, with the elephants and the caliope leading the way, as the Greatest Show on Earth takes up its annual residence from May 8 to 13. Ringling Brothers, Barnum and Bailey may have lost Gargantua to Yale, but the India rubber man, the tattooed lady, and the fire-eater go on forever. In addition, hundreds of performers defy death daily and the seals plays "God Save the King...