Word: monstering
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...this is a compliment, for most farces of 44 look twice their age. In Wilde's long stage joke of what happens when one young man invents an invalid friend and another young man invents a dissolute brother, there are still pleasant stretches. Lady Bracknell, "a monster without being a myth," is still an amusing snob. Miss Prism is still a funny old maid. And Wilde is still the most brilliant epigrammatist in the modern theatre, though for sustained comic dialogue he cannot hold a candle to Shaw...
...Frankenstein (Universal). Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Lionel Atwill and Basil Rathbone bellowing, snarling, frowning and sneering in what is apparently Frankenstein's monster's last appearance on the screen (he ends up in a puddle of boiling sulfur...
...sports in the U. S. Once content to catch a big fish and talk about it forevermore, today a deep-sea angler wants to keep on catching a bigger fish than his neighbor, yearns to break a record -or at least see his picture in the papers alongside the monster he has conquered...
...backbone, the flatworm is tenacious of life. If it is decapitated, the head will grow a new body, the body a new head. If the head is divided by a longitudinal cut toward the tail, each part will become a complete new head, making a two-headed monster. If part of a flatworm's head is removed and grafted to a wound in another flatworm's body, a new head will indomitably sprout from the wound...
...circular, domed building which looks like a modest astronomical observatory. It houses no telescope but a powerful atom-smasher, one of the two biggest in the world. The other is being readied at East Pittsburgh by Westinghouse Electric. Last week, after years of planning and construction, the Carnegie monster started its first test runs, hurling streams of protons (nuclei of hydrogen atoms) into a quartz plate at 5,000,000 volts...