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...finds that her masquerade does not work, Natalie withdraws into fantasies. She begins to cut classes, skip meals, stay in her room all day and go out only at night. She comes to think of people as dolls she can manipulate - or worse, as when she imagines herself a giantess who eats houses and all the people in them "in one mouthful, chewing ruthlessly on the boards and the small sweet bones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Psychological Chiller | 4/23/1951 | See Source »

...generation ago. A lot of it is less boardinghouse than monkey house, less chicken on Sunday than ham and corn during the week. Staking everything on laughs, Playwrights Epstein leap the boarderline of probability, cram the house with all kinds of weirdies and whacks, from a whiskey-soared giantess who yodels to a nymphomaniac who tears after Indians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Musicals in Manhattan, Apr. 17, 1944 | 4/17/1944 | See Source »

Premiere striptease this week, Lois Dc Fee, is advertised as "a six foot glamorous giantess, and every inch a beauty and dazzling personality." Ann Singer ("Her face! Oh! Oh! And her torso more so.") is to be revealed in the near future. The Queen of Beantown Burlesque since your Dad's college days, Ann Corio, is doing war relief work. Her local agent quotes her as declaring, "I'd give the skirt off--" but let the bare facts speak for themselves...

Author: By E. G., | Title: CIRCLING THE SQUARE | 2/24/1941 | See Source »

...that Yellowstone Park's geysers have recently shown a remarkable increase of activity. Grand Geyser, which throws a column of steam and hot water 200 ft. high, used to erupt at intervals of 36 to 48 hours. Now it is running on a schedule of 30 hours. The Giantess (150-200 ft.), which erupts only at long intervals but once started keeps going for twelve to 36 hours, has been putting on its show once or twice a year; yet in the last nine months it has spouted at least three times, probably four...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Geysers Up | 7/4/1938 | See Source »

...woman of decided and dangerous character and her schemes for ruling the Empire made frequent use of murder. Claudius was not even allowed to marry whom he liked. The pretty girl he wanted was murdered on their betrothal day; thereafter he was given in succession a sluggish giantess and a cold-blooded socialite. Eventually he managed to divorce them both and enjoy a quiet interlude with a sensible mistress. Since he was not judged fit for public office, he studied history and planned to write the true story of his family. His father Drusus. his brother Germanicus both came...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Roman Revival | 6/18/1934 | See Source »

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