Word: giante
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...correct, then the present crisis is more than just a passing storm and may well mark the beginning of the end of representative government in France; if it is to be saved, what France needs is a man of the character of Clemenceau or Waldeck-Rousseau; but no such giant is apparent anywhere on the political horizon. Consequently, it will be necessary to appoint some lesser man to fill the place vacated by Chautemps. Whether or not he will be able to preserve the present government it is impossible to predict, for French domestic politics change with mercurial rapidity...
...executed the gold-buying program of his President's Professor Warren. Never does he talk big, like his fellow titan General Johnson, well knowing that lest some upstart Jack arise to climb a beanstalk of prejudice and perhaps calumny, the RFC had best be known as a gentle giant...
...drawing, like that of all extremely productive artists, is highly irregular. The best is almost worthy of that of his model and hero, the late great Paul Gustave Doré. Among the better Hell drawings is one entitled "Clock Conscious." Two other Hell drawings of note: "The Idiot Giant War," an obscene, pinheaded, hog-faced beast with ostrich feathers in his rump, gulping fistfuls of men from a great bowl ; "Trying to End it All," a pale and flabby Hellion, who has just slashed ineffectively at his nude paunch with a dagger...
...what had happened. Then Captain Ferriter called for time-out and with a fresh start, the Harvard offense began to show itself, and during the remainder of the half, both teams netted ten points each, making the score 19-10. The blue team had the overwhelming advantage of a giant center, Ned Wilson, 6 feet seven inches in height, who always got the tip off and set the Yale plays in action...
...faith of the few men who started this movement," concludes Author Taft, "has been amply justified. The giant may loom large; he may seem overwhelming. The inertia of people is even more discouraging. And yet this group of Davids, for all their weakness, were able to overcome Goliath of the Machine. . . . They proved that good government in American cities of substantial size is a possibility...