Word: clamorous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sprawling across and around and through the page. His phrases are unforgettable and wholly unique. Whether or not he has the gift of the inevitable word, he at least can always find the unexpected one. Cummings is intrusively frank, self-consciously courageous, flinging his novelties with a somewhat superfluous clamor into his reader's face. Out of his experimentation may come almost anything...
...tried to quiet down the opposition by abolishing the press censorship, promising the abolition of martial law after the trial of those arrested in a recent revolt, appointing Foreign Minister Apostolos Alexandris as delegate on the Reparations Commission. Republican sentiment, however, refused to be appeased so easily and the clamor for a change of régime continued...
...seem ungracious to clamor like this, in a publishing season that has already produced so many worthy novels. But?we wonder just what would happen if one of the younger or youngest generation worked in a steel mill for a couple of years before he wrote his next novel. It might be the Great American Novel after...
...chorus of exterior chorus. " Down with the management!" the howl from the galleries drowned the music. But such was the respect inspired by Toscannini that the disturbers in the theatre amplified their cries. "Down with the management! " they shouted, " Ma evviva Toscannini! " The compliment, however, did not lessen the clamor. The enraged musician tried for a while to keep on with the performance, in spite of the din, but finally had to give it up and order the doors opened. The crowd poured in. The opera began again...
Federal publicity on the Beef Trust and La Follette diatribes against the Standard Oil Company have been silenced for the moment by the clamor about sugar. Wicked men, it would seem, are holding up the price of the consumer's dearest luxury, it is merely necessary to find the wicked men. But the search goes on from producer to jobber and from broker to consumer, each solemnly shaking his head and pointing to his neighbor. The last man in line with some consternation raises his eyes in significant reverence to an economic law. New committees set out on the quest...