Word: titanic
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Blinding javelins of lightning encircled the colossal pile, and after each succeeding shower there was blinding darkness all around. Rain washed the wide expanse of windows intermittently and the wind in the chimneys moaned and shrilled like some dying titan. It was a fit night for ghoulish purposes, unthinkable horrors that drive the possessor slowly mad. In the cavernous vault the noise of thunder rolled and broke with the insistence of throbbing tom-toms. Somewhere out over the plain of roofs gleaming with water and the trees that tossed their branches in a spasm of agony as if to relieve...
...more then five years since the Alligator, Rene LaCoste, toppled the American tennis titan, Tilden, and thus brought to France the Davis Cup. There it has remained despite the fact that in Shields, Lott, Allison, Van Ryn, and Vines, America has the greatest collection of tennis players alive and most probably the greatest individual player. Yet France continues to pour water on her already soggy courts and Champagne into the historic bowl...
...that he aspired to be in aviation what his late famed father was in railroading. At the outset the Aviation Corp. structure was loose. Its subsidiaries numbered 80, included unrelated small lines, charter services, schools, factories. (The list is now about 20.) The company grew to be not the titan that United Aircraft & Transport is but an extremely potent and coherent transport system holding ten of the 23 domestic airmail contracts. However the growing pains were acute. When Avco was six months old the 1929 crash occurred. Immediately afterward the company altered its investment policy, put much of its ample...
...cloister of his fanaticism for words and work Author Bennett pursued the society of literati, filled his journal with notes on the contemporary scene. He was not choosey. He confesses in one of his few poems: For me a rural pond is not more pure Nor more spontaneous titan my city sewer. In the Parisian restaurant Duval, where for years he regularly sat at a certain table, a revolting old woman once took a seat opposite him. Said Man Bennett: "With that thing opposite to me my dinner will be spoilt!" But Artist Bennett got the idea...
...know?" said the shopkeeper. "He seemed perfectly calm, parfaitement!" Only the Kreuger concierge noticed anything unusual, noticed that when the Match King came home with a package in his hand he did not smile or reply as he always had to the doorman's greeting. Going upstairs, Titan Kreuger wrote three letters in longhand to relatives, loosened his clothes, pulled the trigger...