Word: giante
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...continent poured in to look at gardens, beautiful gardens unlike anything that ever grew in open air, as artificial as New York itself. Here were living tulips as big as cocoanuts, roses big as lettuce heads, dogwood trees blooming six weeks before their time, orchid sprays like swarms of giant and amorous insects...
After courteously asking the bootleggers to make themselves comfortable, he found some pretext to call a roommate into his bedroom. They emerged a moment later, their hip-pockets bulging with the giant...
...Back Bay auspices, this exposure of the debutante business might well be considered pertinent in University circles. It seems rather sad that such vast organization should be required before the shrinking bud can be successfully plucked. It seems almost tragic that the personal element should be lost in the giant network of the matrimonial market. If the present racket should develop consistently, obviously the next step is to establish a black-board and ticker tape at the Somerset in direct communication with a subsidiary machine at University Hall...
...actual funeral last week the King's wreath, if it lay upon the coffin, was completely obscured by a floral tribute 18¾ feet in circumference, inscribed only with the two words in giant capitals BENITO MUSSOLINI. To make up for the King's oblivion there walked beside Il Duce in the funeral procession a figure never before seen at a Fascist function, sleek white-bearded Johann Schober, Chancellor of Austria...
...giant with steel tendons which is Fascist Italy! We can take a little rest in order shortly to accelerate the tempo of our march. All public works not strictly necessary must be postponed. We propose to give the Italian taxpayers a period of repose. Dazio Consumo* [intercity taxation] is a relic of the Middle Ages now maintained only in France, Greece and Italy. It must be abolished...