Word: clarion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...evening in 1895 there was revelry in the castle. Outside, the land lay sickening under black frost. A ballroom was remodeled for the party, costing thousands of pounds. The next day Robert Blatchford, in his Clarion, savagely attacked the hostess and her guests for making merry at so desolate a time. Frances went to London indignant, returned thoroughly Blatchfordized. Since then she has established eleemosynary institutions on her estates (Crippled Children's Home, Needlework School at Easton, Bigods School, The College for training women in horticulture). All of them have failed; the benevolent countess has dissipated a large fortune...
...clarion call for coxswains and for managers will be sounded at both gatherings for the shortage of steersmen has been one of the most trying problems of the last few years. The competition for the position of assistant manager is open to all Sophomores in good standing and will continue throughout the five weeks of fall practice...
...Scherzo of the most fantastic type, though not so marked--might well typify the riddle of the Universe. We indeed 'see through a glass darkly,' and yet there is no note of despair. Amid the sinister mutterings of the basses there ring out, on the horns and trumpets, clarion calls to action. While we are in this world we must live its life; a living death is unendurable. The Finale, Allegro maestoso, is a majestic declaration of unconquerable faith and optimism--the intense expression of Beethoven's own words, 'I will grapple with Fate, it shall never pull me down...
...before, Lady War wick's portrait had to be got through with. You can always count on a line of soldiers to stir people; a good fierce American eagle would be a useful 'property', as the theatre chape call it, and 'Our Old Flag,' from centre-stage, in the clarion tones of a Fourth of July speech, or an election rally, or of the columns of the 'Congressional Record,' would be certain to bring down a round of applause again...
...labeled "Peek." The damsel, who might have been either weeping or sleeping, was labeled "Farm Vote." The departing gallant wore a haughty "G. O. P." label. The dubious gallant bore an unmistakable resemblance to Nominee Smith, and to make certainty certain, Cartoonist Homer Speltz of the Gopher Prairie, Wha.,* Clarion had labeled the figure...