Word: gargantuas
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...beauty and whimsicality of the heroine, her generous disposition towards regiments and regiments of the military. No wedding is recorded, yet suddenly, almost miraculously, she brings forth a son called "the little Marine." His exploits are then made the subject of exhaustive saga, beside which the Rabelaisian Odysseys of Gargantua and Pantagruel dwindle to commonplace proportions...
...boire" was the first yell of Gargantua after he was born. He thus intimated that drinking was one of the important needs...
...Gargantua, like us, was given ample facilities to satisfy his craving for studies, but, unlike us, he was also given ample facilities to satisfy his physical needs. I do not ask for the same beverage as that used by Gargantua, but I should like to have our directors provide us with some good cold water in various handy places in the library. If this is not done, it may happen that a tired or absent minded student, leaning back in his chair and yawning noisily, will yell, to the disturbance of many: "A boire." Alex Chalufour...
...Committee's naive optimism is remarkable. It forgets that the ban placed on Rabelais has probably doubled the readers of "Gargantua," while "Jurgen," since the allurement of censorship was removed, has fallen in value from twenty-five dollars to a mere two-fifty. A half-page ad like this will be commonplace: "Read 'Love and Law." The Clean Books League calls it 'the greatest outrage against decency and morality in the last decade...
Perhaps the general moral uplift following the War is responsible; or perhaps the Government has just recently learned to read French. At any rate, Gargantua must give way to "The DemiVirgin", as "Caliban" had to yield before "Simon Called Peter". Terence and Horace had better look to their morals, and Boccaccio keep clear of the censor, for a new Battle of Books is brewing. Certainly it is remarkable how the mind of the modern generation is kept pure and unsullied, and all indecencies removed far beyond it reach. When the act of sending a copy of Rabelais through the postoffice...