Word: gargantuan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Louis' gluttony was gargantuan: Author Padover calls it "glandular." A "normal" meal for him would consist of four cutlets, a fat chicken, six eggs, a slice of ham. Sometimes he gorged himself insensible, would then mutter remorseful words of "slop-pail grossness." At decisive moments he was often too gorged...
...suite on the second floor of Washington's Mayflower Hotel constitutes the legation of the Kingdom of Albania. The drawing room is dominated by a talking-machine with a Gargantuan, oldfashioned, master's-voice horn. Presiding there since 1926 has been cultured, convivial Faik (pronounced "fah-eek") Konitza, a sixtyish bachelor who reads 13 languages, has an earned M. A. from Harvard University and numbers among his friends beauteous Ann Corio, famed Italianate strip-teaseuse...
Keith Memorial is holding over Sonja Henie and Richard Greene in 20-the Century Fox's "My Lucky Star." One gargantuan skating sequence, the Alice in Wonderland ballet, dominates the picture, in spite of young Englishman Greene's pretty face. In addition is a dubious offering, "Personal Secretary", with William Gargan and Andy Devine...
...earth-shaking thud of thousands of large feet goose-stepping at Nürnberg; gargantuan mass drills with shovels, guns, artillery, war planes, brass bands, dumbbells; a solemn annual service for dead Nazi martyrs-these the world hardly noticed, for everywhere people asked "War?" and tried to read the answer in the Nürnberg speeches of Big Nazis...
...schedule, with his wife in the title role. The French Revolution, MGM, Shearer & Power, Director W. S. Van Dyke II and $2,500,000 are probably an unbeatable combination in any language. Even for Hollywood's most extravagant moments, the scale on which this picture was produced remains gargantuan. It is equipped with 5,500 extras and 98 grand-scale sets. It runs for two hours and 35 minutes. It also runs a gamut from babies to beheadings. The cast-particularly Miss Shearer and 28-year-old Robert Morley, whom Producer Hunt Stromberg discovered in London last year-extracts...