Word: glant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ibsen, like Shakespeare, is in no great danger of growing antiquated; but if he were, his services in throwing aside the torpid and illusive glow of Romanticism, that had so long held European literature entranced, would still be invaluable. As so often happens, the Naturalistic movement introduced by this glant degenerated to vulgarity, but not before Hauptmann, Shaw, and Strindberg, following Ibsen, had established its importance in literature. Not often does true genius receive its due while its possessor lives; Ibsen, however, was fortunate enough to be hailed as great during his lifetime, and posterity has continued the applause...
...cover of the Lampoon's Wonder-Book, I felt sure I should enjoy the number. One could hardly imagine a more charming prelude--a boy and girl wandering across a fairy heath where on near the witch tree and far from the enchanted castle they meet a glant and discover elves; all this in exquisite tinis and April airlness. What a clever hand Philip Boone must have, I said; and I turned to the pictures within to see how the other articles had expressed the spirit of whimsey which must twinkle in story books. I did not find dear Kate...
John J. Magee, Bowdoin College Track coach, has written the following article on the development of the hammer throw in intercollegiate competition. Magee is the trainer of Fred Tootell, the glant Bowdoin weight thrower, who holds the I. C. A. A. A. A. and Olympic records in the hammer throw...
...outplayed and out-fought, the Westerners running up nine 'points while the men from New Jersey never even threatened their goal line. It was the first victory of a western team over either Princeton, Yale, or the University. The Maroon attack centered about the line-plunging of her three glant fullbacks, Timme, Thomas and Zorn, who time after time tore through the veteran Tiger line for substantial gains, a thing that football critics had pronounced as impossible. Chicago registered eighteen first downs against Princeton's three, but practically none of these were made by means of the forward passes that...