Word: fiercest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Saroyan's cute childhood, his poverty, his poignant memory of every hamburger he ever ate, his nutty relatives-the subjects of most of his previous stories-are the subjects of about half of the 35 stories in The Trouble With Tigers. The other half-exhibiting Saroyan's fiercest inhaling and exhaling to date-consists of stories about Hollywood and essays on the contemporary idiocy of Man in general. Besides working last year as a cinema writer, Saroyan evidently studied up on Dostoyevsky and Whitman...
...with prehistoric remains, has long been the spawning ground for revolts. From Crete, Eleutherios Venizelos, a native of the island, launched a political career in the course of which he became Premier of Greece no less than seven times. From Crete, in March 1935, he supported one of the fiercest revolts in modern Greek history, seized several warships, only to have his revolt squelched. Old Venizelos fled to Paris, where he died year later...
...Fiercest back -& -forth fighting took place at Taierhchwang, 45 miles northeast of Suchow. Time & again the town changed hands and before long the ancient walls and mud huts were leveled. At last reports the Japanese had occupied the city, entered Kiangsu Province...
Ringling Bros.-Barnum & Bailey Circus' gorilla Gargantua the Great, wrote Gargantuan Columnist Heywood Broun three weeks ago, "is the fiercest looking thing I have ever seen on two legs. And probably his power and truculence were all the more impressive because he did look a good deal like a distant relative. No one was allowed to go close to his cage, because Gargantua can reach about five feet through the bars and get a toe hold on a visitor whom he dislikes." Gargantua may not be the world's biggest captive gorilla-since the death of Berlin...
Poet Heine, lover of paradox, led a life full of contradiction. Born in Düsseldorf, 1797 he grew up in a period when libertarianism alternated with the fiercest repression. There was revolution in France, in Germany there were pogroms. Since Heine was a Jew and passionately self-conscious about it, the uncertainty of the atmosphere led to unpredictable twists in his character, making him by turns suspicious and open-spirited, free-hearted and crabbedly vindictive. Artistically the most German of Germans, he spent the major part of his creative life in exile. A gallant, he fell finally in love...