Word: clangor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hundred Years Old. The happy simplicity of this play, which concerns a Spanish patriarch who arranges and enjoys his 100th birthday party, is like a benison softly spoken in the clangor and fret of Broadway. Serafin and Joaquin Alvarez Quintero, playwright-brothers of Madrid, might easily have drenched it in tears of sentimentality, but the best proof that their play avoids pathos is the fact that the old man does not die in the last act. Having convinced his fastidious, fortunate descendants that all the family, including Antonon, who is a truck-gardener and Gabriella, who has borne an illegitimate...
...strode a jeweled assemblage. Above him waved a velvet canopy of scarlet and gold which dispersed thick spirals of incense rising from argent censers. Behind him swayed two giant ostrich fans. As the podium was borne through the colonnade, the mass of heads turned, the air quivered with the clangor of bells, the shouts were hoarse and deafening: "Viva il Papa! Viva il Papa...
Directors, engineers, making sound pictures have long been troubled by the roar of beaded dresses, clash of pearl beads, clangor of bracelets tinkling. Last week Paramount ordered for stars and extras rubber beads, pearls, jewelry...
...anathema to drowsy denizens of the Yard as it bellowed forth its call to chapel. Future generations, however, will have eight times as much provocation for invoking the Deity, as the tones of the new monster invade their slumbers, not with, ineffectual persistence as of old, but with a clangor calculated to hurt them from their beds, trembling and pallid...
...vacant passages in Democratic ears await in vain even the rumble of a distant drum. The clash and clangor of battle is strangely lacking. Now and again the silence is broken by the popping of a single gun, or a fusillade against the flyscreens of the White House...