Word: monstering
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...Dragon Day-during which students dragged a monster illuminated dragon, several hundred feet long, through the streets-banners inscribed "Death to the English brigands" and "Declare War on England" formed part of the procession. No violence was reported, but tremendous activity in raising money for strikers in the Provinces was noted...
...were accompanied by the Queen Mother Margherieta (proud of her son), Crown Prince Umberto, the Princesses Mafakla and Giovanna, the Duke and Duchess of Aosta (the King's cousins), Benito Mussolini and members of the Diplomatic Corps, marched a two-hour military and police parade. Later, a monster procession of more than 100,000 people, headed by a platoon of the Royal Guards on white chargers, marched past the Quirinal Palace, paying a tribute of cheers to its Sovereigns and receiving in return the King's salutes and the Queen's bows. Dense crowds lined the streets...
Meantime, King Alfonso had been filling his engagements with marked unconcern. The only outward sign that he gave concerning the dastardly attempt to assassinate him was to take enough time off from his scheduled duties to view the monster bomb that had first been found...
...creatures new and strange. They were black, forked objects about the size of young sea cows, with globular heads, baggy, wrinkled trunks and clublike arms, plodding with ponderous feet over the ocean floor. They had no apparent purpose and blew endless streams of bubbles as they went. Each monster stared about him through one enormous glassy eye. To their heads were attached trailing rubbery tubes like skeins of attenuated umbilical cords, stretching down to them through the sea from an unknowable parent whose broad bulk rocked gently. For long periods, the monsters would sit motionless on brilliant mushrooms of coral...
...objection to a close relationship with the League valid. It is an advisory relationship solely. Furthermore, the League is not the horrible militaristic monster Senator Borah has pictured it to be. It has accomplished far more for the good of the world in refinancing central Europe for example than timid and provincial American Senators can ever hope to accomplish. And is the United States to believe forever that a valid interest in the affairs of Europe and the world brings with it the plague...