Word: clangor
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President Roosevelt will dine to the tune of discordant bells at the annual winter Fly Club dinner Saturday, February 23, the CRIMSON was startled to learn last night. The grinding clangor will not be celebrating his visit to Cambridge, nor yet a favorable gold decision, but will be fulfilling a wish that the unwitting President made in October 1933 when he was gracefully extricating himself from the Lowell House carillon flasco...
Which is scarier, the noise or the silence? Long after the attacks of Sept. 11, the clangor of terror echoes worldwide. But for U.S. investigators, what they don't hear is almost as frightening as what they...
...Chianti (key-AHN-teeh), for all you philistines, comes from the Chianti district of Central Italy. Chianti derives its name from the Latin word clangor meaning “sound of a trumpet”—quite appropriate given the fanfare this fine wine deserves. The Sangiovese grape (red) is the sine qua non of Chianti. It is used alone or with the Canaiolo Nero (red) and/or other white grape varieties such as the Trebbiano Toscano and the Malvasia del Chianti. Chianti is a dry, crisp, acidic example of a light to medium-bodied red wine. The tannin...
...when the serene ripples of Chopin fade away, it's back to the clangor of Arnault's other preoccupation, business. At the moment he is involved in a donnybrook with Robert W. Miller, a minority stockholder in the DFS Group Ltd., a duty-free retailer of leather goods and perfume, particularly LVMH's leather goods and perfumes. Arnault thought he had maneuvered around Miller by buying out his partners' 38.75% share for $1.6 billion. But Miller hung tough, declaring that "despite his promises, Bernard Arnault has a pattern of exploiting the assets of partially acquired companies for the benefit...
...clangor of the crudity...