Word: monsters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week London lost the last traces of a sentimental old symbol-the Crystal Palace. A Victorian monster of iron and glass, surrounded by gardens full of melancholy statuary, the Palace had been since 1854 London's high-toned version of Coney Island. Thousands of contemporary Londoners had their first childhood outings there, listening to holy choirs, brass bands, evangelists; watching cricket, soccer, motorbike races; running through the gardens, boating on the pond. In World War I the grounds and building incongruously became H.M.S. Crystal Palace-i.e. a "training ship" for naval reservists...
...feet, a fast man with his fists. He is afraid of nothing. As president of the Town Improvement Society, he cleans up the face of Elmsport. As a citizen of the world, he tries to rouse the U.S. from blind isolationism ("if England falls now, the raging monster, the murderous vampire beast of destruction won't stop there"); he founds a national organization called The Young Defenders of Liberty. He has been married for a long time now to Inza Burrage, the brunette for whom, in the old days, he once fought a mad dog. He has a nubile...
...Huey Long; he was merely an exhibitionist playing with fire." When Percy Sr. won, they tried to pin a bribery charge on him. It was quickly disproved, but the man who made the charge went on shouting the lie from every platform in Mississippi. He "was a pert little monster, glib and shameless. . . . The people loved him ... not because they were deceived in him, but because they understood him thoroughly; they said of him proudly: 'He's a slick little bastard.' " Next time they threw out Percy Sr. "Wai," said an old man, wet with tobacco juice...
...farmers did learn how to be carpenters. General Devers cut corners, even cut sacred Army tape (example: many a building was nearly completed before paper authority to start it had arrived). Where a steel water tank had been planned, with no steel at hand, a 132-foot concrete monster stood last week. When the lumber supply threatened to run short, Army buyers combed the Carolinas and part of Georgia, cornered the regional market (at premium prices), and kept well ahead of the carpenters. A two-story frame bar racks, from concrete foundation to the last shingle...
...Champagne covered with blood . . ."). People even managed to forget Jean Paul Marat '"When a man lacks everything ... he is justified in cutting another's throat and devouring the palpitating flesh"). But one man they never could forget-Maximilien Marie Isidore de Robespierre, "the sea-green, incorruptible" monster, France's dictator during the Terror...