Word: gargantuas
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...firm conviction that any fairly good heavyweight boxer could put the great Gargantua [460-lb. Congo-born gorilla now on tour with the Ringling circus] to sleep or to rout within two minutes...
...Gargantua is a big boy but a Dempsey left hook landing on his stomach might figuratively tear the poor animal in two. . . . He didn't spend years doing bending and mat exercises. A man has 24 ribs. Your encyclopedia will tell you that a gorilla has but 13. Between the ribs, below the breastbone, there are nerve centres. If they are shocked the shock travels to the spine, temporarily causing paralysis. The ribs, and well developed muscles between the ribs, protect these nerve centres. Twenty-four ribs are much more protection than...
With a mischievous twinkle in his beady eyes, Gargantua the Great, featured circus star, admitted last night that he had refused Yale's offer of a football scholarship. "My career comes firs," he thundered...
...Captain Larry Davis, Ringling elephant superintendent, has stated that the 8-year-old Ringling elephant, Fanny, "could demolish Gargantua . . . and it would be no more than a breather...
...steal the show this year, it is a good show Gargantua has stolen. Brilliant with new costumes, electric with man-&-beast action on its three rings and two stages, the 1938 circus has, besides a full deck of routine, such new acts...