Word: monstrously
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Gunther remembers himself as "an appalling, monstrous child who wanted to do it all." In the Lake View High School magazine, he broke into type at 16 with an essay on the Russian Revolution. At 20, English Major Gunther wrote 20 U.S. publishers that he would review their books in a literary column he had started in the University of Chicago's Daily Maroon, followed up by soliciting puffs on the column from such critical luminaries as H. L. Mencken and Harry Hansen...
...hundred million years ago the monstrous dinosaur was the king of beasts. Then the dinosaurs suddenly died off, leaving dominance of the earth to smaller, warm-blooded mammals. One theory is that the great die-off was caused by a sudden change of climate. Another is that the slow-witted, blundering dinosaurs could not cope with mammals that destroyed their eggs. Biochemist Albert Schatz of National Agricultural College, Doylestown, Pa. has a third theory: that the evolution of modern plants was the death of the dinosaurs...
...took the Dodgers' President Walter O'Malley five consecutive days of negotiation and four considerably different "final offers" before he managed to rent a Los Angeles home for his footloose ball club. The site: the monstrous (101,528 seats) L.A. Coliseum. The price, to be paid to the city and county of Los Angeles and to the state of California: $200,000 a year for 1958 and 1959, plus 10% of the gate, and all concession profits for the first nine games of each season following an opening series with the San Francisco Giants...
Though five Manhattan galleries turned away from what they considered a monstrous undertaking, Nordness himself got nearly $75,000 in backing, made the rounds of leading U.S. art centers preaching that "there is a real hunger for art if a show can be put on in a place where the public is not afraid to go." Winning the support of some 75 galleries, Nordness soon had to take over five stories of a warehouse to store the 7,000 paintings and sculptures that came rolling in, sweated through a fire that burned down the adjacent building, even surmounted a last...
...shameless pimps, and now stands on the ragged edge of poverty, bartering to parvenus for bread an empty dukedom bought with a female relative's dishonor." Brann scoffed at James Whitcomb Riley, "the poetical ass with the three-story name," railed at a clergyman-critic as a "monstrous bag of fetid wind," adding: "The man who can find intellectual food in [his] sermons could acquire a case of delirium tremens by drinking the froth out of a pop bottle." The son of a Presbyterian minister, he rang some of his angriest cadences against anti-Catholic bigots, called them "equal...