Word: monstering
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...type but with interests more cheerful than Baptist-baiting and with membership in no mutual-admiration societies. His cerebral inheritance is from the stock that bred Chief Justice John Marshall of Virginia. He acquired a scientific background at Johns Hopkins. His breadth of literary background is suggested by a monster, high-ceilinged library in his big airy house on Bay St. Louis, far across the bayous on the Mississippi coast. Just as Louisiana is of all States perhaps the most detached and self-concerned, and just as New Orleans concentrates the independent-mindedness that makes this so, just so does...
Miss Eleanor Godley of Trenton, N. J., stepped back, dripping but smiling, and surveyed her handiwork. She had splintered a bunting-wrapped bottle of ginger-ale upon the nose of a monster all-metal bombing biplane at the Bristol, Pa., factory of the Huff-Daland Airplanes Inc. Bigger, stronger, all-metal, it was one of many new types of bombing planes that are abuilding in various shops for the Army Air Service, in competition to succeed the Martin bomber as official type for the national bombing fleet, which numbers at present, in Panama, Hawaii, the Philippines, etc., about...
...stayed in civil aviation continuously-except for the eight-day honorary term as mayor of Saulcy-sur-Meurthe, his birthplace in the Vosges. The Motives. Captain Fonck came to the U. S. last year for the Pulitzer air races. Hearing that Engineer Igor Sikorsky was building monster trimotored planes on Long Island for long-distance flights, it occurred to him to inquire about a trans-Atlantic flight, primarily as a sporting proposition; secondly, to promote aviation by scientific accomplishments; thirdly, as an afterthought, to promote Franco-American goodwill. Engineer Sikorsky consented swiftly and bonded himself...
...seen, and marked suspiciously, a monster, oldtime touring car-a traffic-scarred 1915 Winton or an even older Fierce-Arrow, whose tarnished brass and torn leather adumbrated a bygone respectability-rolling heavily but with sinister smoothness through his city's streets, the big tonneau jammed to the guards with a lounging, ill-favored crew of foreign-blooded males whose pull-down caps and brooding faces caused the beholder to murmur: "Lordy, what a bunch of yeggs...
...ever penned such a gambling scene as the one here, where young Jim, the camp "gaycat," "fuzz-face" or "gazoony" is admitted to the Thanksgiving Day poker game and after long lucky hours lays four aces on the horse-blanket to beat Bully Black Hawk out of a monster pot. They gave the lad his moniker (nickname) after that and he skinned (drove) mules thereafter instead of walloping dishes...