Word: clamant
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...long, dim view of this nuptial speedup is taken this week by the Christian Century: "By what great shift in sociology, psychology, temperature or radiation are we to account for that clamant coupling of pre-ministerial students which threatens now to turn our dormitories into nurseries, our campuses into playpens, our graduate colleges into preschools? Ordinarily we would plead for no ivory tower, but if the choice is ivory tower or brooder coop, the remoter symbol looks better all the time...
...conducting with the wild iconoclasm of his public utterances, the explanation may lie in the fact that he is a man little compelled either by circumstance or temperament to dwell on the tragic issues of life. It is perhaps therefore only natural that his ebullient energies should seek clamant relief in attacking what he calls "this age of high comedy," in spectacularly pricking that "whole boil and bubble of insanity" which he says he sees around him and which so exasperates him that he is often driven "to hold his sides with laughter...
...wholly bad thing. . . . God is ... putting to us a searching question. Money can be found in any quantities to discharge shells gratis to the enemy; shall we again be fobbed off with the plea of poverty when the more modest demands of social decency again become clamant...
...will be good getting down today. It will be good when the detraining mob in North Station starts singing "Dartmouth's in Town Again." It will be good to hear the long clamant wave of sound that will climax the kickoff and to hear the blunt barking roar that greets a touchdown. The crowd at a football game is always two teased Metro-Gold-wyn-Mayer lions. It will be good for a man to feel himself part of all the color, of all the good nature, of all, the expectant enthusiasm. It will be excellent to watch The Dartmouth...
...liked the house libraries: one of them in every house, as intimate as the Christopher Wren room in Sanborn, but much larger, and containing every conceivable book for pleasurable perusal or routine research. We liked the tall-ceilinged fire-lit library in Eliot House, and the clamant Crimson library in Standish, and the goldleaf and wrought iron of Adams...
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