Word: giante
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...From Portland the King sped to his snuggery, Fort Belvedere, 30 miles outside London, and was joined by Mrs. Simpson for the weekend. A reporter crawling that night among the giant rhododendrons ascertained that jazz was blaring and every window of the snuggery ablaze, before he was picked out by the electric torch of a constable too wise to make an arrest which would have made headlines...
Iraq. "Cyclops" means "Round-Eye." The Cyclops of Greek myth was a giant with a single monstrous eye centred in his forehead, who sank ships by throwing boulders at them. Heading another Oriental Institute expedition to Tell Osmar, Dr. Henri Frankfort found evidence that Cyclops was not a Greek invention. On a Babylonian site at least a millennium older than Homer, the diggers discovered a relief carving showing a god with bow & arrow stabbing a Cyclops in the belly with a broad-bladed knife. Rays emanating from Cyclops' head indicate that he was a demon of light or fire...
Meantime Generalissimo Franco's lines, which more than half-encircled Madrid like a giant horseshoe, receded or advanced as alternating sallies of the Red Militia and the White Army met with setback or success. White troops, however, were saying confidently that "the fall of Madrid is only a matter of hours...
Iron Men (by Francis Gallagher; Norman Bel Geddes, producer) presents a scene never before approximated for verisimilitude in the theatre-the uppermost steel skeleton of a skyscraper under construction. Not content with that, Designer-Producer Bel Geddes has put his scene into operation. A giant crane looming up into the flies brings up six or seven big I-beams which are bolted into place before the eyes of the audience. In robust defiance of the "pusher" (man with the blueprints), four steelworkers ride on the ball attached to the crane-hook. Only flaws in this extraordinary feat of artistic naturalism...
...glaring electric light atop a rail-guarded manhole with a red "Danger" sign broke the dark stillness of the Yard in front of Boylston Hall last night as electric company workmen toiled late to install a new giant transformer...