Word: monstrously
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...square enters the Yard. There past a copper beech lies a long rectangle of shaded lawn enclosed by ten or so buildings of all styles simply beauty of ancient Hollis architectural bathos of Weld. Behind University Hall a lovely Hall indeed is an other rectangle into which, crowds the monstrous dignity of Widener Library. Through these spaces move the students the faculty sauntering past squirrels who live by a wisdom of their own in this colossus of learning. In winter boardwalks are put down and fur coated the young men go their open galoshes clattering above the crunch of rubber...
Rabelais' jocose giant Pantagruel, under whose tongue a whole army once hid, might find the 500-ft. U. S. plane now being designed no wonder. But certainly the Arabian roc, which carried off elephants for its nestlings as an eagle rapes a mouse, would shy from the monstrous thing U. S. engineers propose to build for $5,000,000. Who the financiers are, who the builders, was kept secret. That it was a bona fide project Harry Westcott of Westcott & Mapes, Inc., New Haven and Manhattan engineering firm, testified immediately after Governor John H. Trumbull of Connecticut had predicted...
Anticipating some sort of protest, Professor Pitkin explained through the press that he had not meant to suggest that the alleged Wilson infirmities were "shameful" or "monstrous." "Thousands of people cheerfully exhibit and endure far worse ills of the flesh. . . . He might have avoided most of the myriad condemnations simply by being honest and admitting physical frailties. But this would have interfered with his restless aspirations. Voters would never elect sick men as governors and presidents...
...first he excited only her contempt with his tactlessness, her pity with his distress, her amused indifference with his bitter glumness at her lack of response, her fear with his broad but bent shoulders. "Naturally she had no illusions about what the man wanted, but by a monstrous caprice of her nature she resolved to refuse him everything because he did not despise her." She retreated in rage when he guessed her occupation...
...humor which Mr. Herbert finds to be afflicted with this touchiness are domestic servants, policemen, civil servants. Americans, Mussolini, clergymen and plumbers. To which the Lampoon, no doubt, would add Princetonian and the House Planners. But nobody's touchiness will be outraged by the current Lampoon. It is a monstrous fat book, the fattest in all Lampoon history, and it is a parody of that strangely sportive new child of Boston. The Sportsman...