Word: bunched
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pastime of religious fanatics and charlatans. In modern times such predictions have been the province of loose-spoken scientists and the sensational Press. The cry of modern world-enders is that if anyone ever succeeds in exploding one atom of Matter, the whole universe will go off like a bunch of firecrackers. Last week, when Hearst newsmen discovered that two brave young German scientists plan shortly to try to crack an atom and convert it into radiation, the doomsday story was given another twirl. "A colossal catastrophe might ensue," declared the New York American. "Will this planet, twirling peacefully...
...night, and he had taken Lord Irwin on an empty stomach. Twice more, last week, the "friends" met. Once the Viceroy sent around to Mr. Gandhi's lodgings the most tempting gift His Excellency could imagine: a cool jug of the best goat's milk and a bunch of the most luscious hothouse grapes. Mr. Gandhi began sending telegrams to Nationalist leaders all over India saying merely: "Come to me," and they set out. The Executive Committee of the Nationalist Congress unanimously informed St. Gandhi that they would abide absolutely by any decision he might make, thus scotching...
...more successful portraits of British and U. S. beauties, accompanied by brittle little pen-&-ink sketches and paragraphs. The Beaton method apparently is to make a highly nattering photograph of a lovely lady in an exotic attitude: lying on her back on the floor; peering from a bunch of balloons; reflected in a mirror. To this is added a not nearly so flattering drawing and a slightly malicious little essay. The motif of many of his photographs and all of his drawings is charmingly and stuffily Edwardian, the epoch which is presently amusing England's Bright Young People. Photographic...
...past, he is pestered by a cantankerous customer who comes into his drugstore to buy a stamp; and he has difficulties with a small automobile (an Austin this time). Assisting Mr. Fields is that extraordinary Gourmand Chaz Chase, who smokes and eats a cigar, then a bunch of carnations, then half a dozen packets of matches, after which he licks his fingertips with relish...
Sassoon writes quietly, with an effect of naivete that often cloaks irony. The naivete is superficial, the irony fundamental. When he was brought back to London after being wounded, his stretcher was taken off the train at Charing Cross Station, where "a woman handed me a bunch of flowers and a leaflet by the Bishop of London who earnestly advised me to lead a clean life and attend Holy Communion...