Word: gargantuas
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Dessert, Please, Gargantua. In Bernardsville, N.J., James Adams, as research on "How Gullible Is the American Public?", wrote to Westchester County housewives offering trained apes as inexpensive, silent servants, got a few enthusiastic inquiries...
...former president of Ringling Bros. Barnum & Bailey circus; by beauteous French Cinemactress Germaine Aussey Agassiz North, 35; after five years of marriage, three of separation; in Sarasota, Fla. Grounds: extreme cruelty. Example: soon after they were married, he left her to hunt for a mate for his lonely gorilla, Gargantua...
...animals. Trained seals, tooting My Country, 'Tis Of Thee, manage to be irresistibly funny. For the first time the big wild animal act displays six statuesque chorines inside the cage, one of whom wraps a leopard around her bare shoulders. And down in the basement Mr. & Mrs. Gargantua carry on one of the greatest hate affairs on record...
...TIME (Dec. 30, 1940) devoted considerable space to the approaching marriage of Gargantua, the gorilla, and the popular pet, M'Toto. Perhaps due to my own negligence, I have never heard anything more about the proposed match. Can you bring me up to date on this...
...Deal. Probably the only man to dampen the buying zeal of Trader Hilton is red-faced, reticent ex-Bricklayer Stephen Healy. A contractor at heart, Healy was an uneasy owner of the $28,000,000 lakefront gargantua. But Hilton's obvious passion to own the place made Healy stifle his own eagerness to sell. First, he wanted $500,000 clear profit on the $5,281,000 he had paid the Army for the Stevens, and the $800,000 he had spent on furnishings. Then he coolly upped his profit demand to $650,000, then to a million, finally...