Word: monstering
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...casting Canada Lee in the debasing role of Caliban. Miss Webster has invited the criticism of all who profess an interest in the race question. The choice of a Negro for the role of the misshapen monster, half-human and servile, suggests sinister implications. Lee, however, said during a backstage interview that he has attempted to play down all social connotations in his part, and that he feels genuinely honored to follow in the footsteps of Sir Herbert Tree and other English actors who have played Caliban...
...their western-front offensive, the Germans used new weapons. One was a leviathan tank, the 75-ton Königstiger (Royal Tiger), whose turret could turn through the full circle, whose hitting power was a greatly elongated version of the high-velocity 88-mm. gun. In one model the monster's frontal armor was six-inch steel plate, slanted at high angle to bounce shells off. But in another version the Königstiger was reportedly a true land battleship-its turret faced with twelve inches of armor, probably impenetrable to all but the heaviest field-artillery projectiles...
...back to the Jap task force's course, picked out the battleship as his target. A low-level run with his flying boxcar in the face of concentrated ack-ack resulted in two misses, two direct hits. But the 500-pounders were as flea bites to the armored monster, and the enemy force drove...
...pestiferous, lecherous hound. . . . I'm sorry he isn't here so I could . . . hand it to him right on the chin. . . . Did you ever hear the story of Svengali and Trilby? This fellow is just a little runt of a Svengali. He's not even a monster . . . just a little runt. . . . This fellow doesn't lie like a gentleman. He lies like a cheap Cockney cad. ... That man goes around fornicating . . . with the same aplomb that the average man orders bacon and eggs for breakfast. He is a hoary headed old buzzard . . . with the instincts...
...second attempt was less routine. A monster parade of Army reservists (some of them 80 years old) was scheduled to march down the Calle Florida. At 10 a.m., two armed men burst into the administration building at the Matanza Airfield south of Buenos Aires. At gun's point they forced mechanics to wheel out a plane. "Don't be scared." they told the grease monkeys, "we're doing this for the good of the country." The strong-arm men climbed aboard. The plane hopped off the field, cracked up after 300 yards. The two men crawled...