Word: monsters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While it is impossible to restrain a smile at the sight of this comical little monster, one wonders how many will smile when the worm, having ravaged the fruit, will have attained the proportions of a dragon...
...sense the speechmaking and politicking were simply groundwork for the Legion's parades. They blossomed by the scores. There were informal processions by rigid but hilarious ranks of pajama-clad men. There were exploratory tours by bands and drum & bugle corps. On the first night there was a monster demonstration of that peculiar production of American fantasy-the 40 & 8 locomotive. There were 38 of them in all, many of them amazing machines which emitted real smoke, towed boxcars and whistled like Old 97. About 200,000 people jammed sidewalks and rooftops to cheer them down Eighth Avenue...
...physically incapable of bearing children. Had she committed 17 mad murders of vengeance against women undergoing operations to make child-bearing possible? Nurse Demussy, after 22 solid hours of questioning, did not give the detective's theory much encouragement. Said she: "Do I look like a monster...
Died. Manuel Rodriguez, 30, "Manolete, El Monstruo" (the monster), the greatest bullfighter of his day, the idol of millions of Spaniards and Latin Americans; from traumatic shock after a cornada (horn wound); in Linares, Spain (see INTERNATIONAL...
...When I was a child," said Eugene Delacroix, "I was a Monster." In time the monster grew a mustache and became famous for his wit, his dandyism and his fierce, flamboyant art, which now fills one-third of the Louvre's 19th Century tier of honor. But Delacroix's leaping, flesh-tearing lions, burning cities, shipwrecks and hard-riding Moors suggest that, being a true child of his age, he never quite outgrew his childhood. According to one of the painter's closest friends, Poet Charles Baudelaire (who also gave life quite a Peter Panning), savagery...