Word: cataclysmic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Battenberg, on a slumming party, went to hear him. Warmed by the lager, or pleased with the song, the Teuton princeling profered ten cents. Baline, unaccustomed to the ways of royalty, staggered back. The riff-raff stared; up stepped a ruddy reporter, overawed both Prince and waiter with a cataclysm of questions. Next day, Berlin received his first publicity. The reporter, one Herbert Bayard Swope, now edits The New York World...
Premier Benito Mussolini's first appearance in the Chamber of Deputies since his brief illness (TIME, Mar. 2, 30) was greeted with a Fascist cataclysm of exuberance, somewhat marred by the Communists, who staged a counter-demonstration...
...outskirts of Tokyo-a city slowly rising from the ruins wrought by the seismic cataclysm of 1923 (TIME, Sept. 10, 1923, et seq.)-smoke burst into fire in a factory. Greedy, licking flames were fanned by a devil's wind and, within a day, a space of one square mile extending into the city lay black, scorching, smoking. More than 1,700 houses had been destroyed, nearly 10,000 people made homeless. Nobody was reported dead, but ten people were listed as missing, more than 100 injured and 50 children, separated during the fire from their parents, began...
...justly considered, upon eminent authority, one of the finest products of modern Italian genius. Sem Benelli, one of Italy's foremost living playwrights, who wrote the poem, tells the story in a terse, swiftly moving drama coupled with music which vividly depicts events running fatefully toward an inevitable human cataclysm. While Montemezzi's score is not necessarily set to one particular melodious theme, nevertheless there is a succession of musical phrases that clothe the words and the thought behind them, their significance, their most subtle suggestion, in the weft and woof of expressive music...
Among the many things which the war was to have accomplished, not a little has been said and written about a twentieth century renaissance. The movement has its prophets. They have predicted that out of the cataclysm of war the forces of pent up genius will burst into full blossoms to lead the way to greater intellectual freedom...