Word: cluttering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fourth night amid the drifting clutter of ice, the explorers were passing along an iceberg when another berg charged, passed, missing them by yards. The charging berg "ran up against the first berg with a heavy thud that would have squeezed us to powder. . . . We saw in the far distance the reflection of the moon on an iceberg to leeward...
Intermission came with its clutter and shuffle of scenery. While he waited for the callboy's knock, Scotti tried to smoke one of his long, monogrammed cigarets, but his mouth was too parched. He had never been so nervous, he decided, not even on that first night in Malta 43 years ago when it had seemed fantastic that he, son of a Neapolitan grocer, intended for the priesthood, should be singing in opera. Finally the knock came...
...sell more copies, fun-making Ballyhoo last week told newsdealers a story by and about a newsdealer. Excerpt: "... 'These imitators are LOUSY anyway and they clutter up my stand . . . and the hell with them.' ... So the WISE NEWSDEALER threw away the GOOEYS and FOOEYS and SLAPPOS and NERTSIES . . . AND BUSINESS BOOMED AGAIN...
...Chicago one morning last week, Serafina di Leo lay abed in a clutter of flowers, telegrams and Sunday papers. A great deal had happened to her in three years. She had studied diligently in Italy, learned to speak pure Italian instead of the dialect on which she had been raised. She had sung at the Scala and in Genoa. With lips vermilion-red and finger nails to match, she returned to the U. S. this autumn to find herself good copy because she was a New Jersey laborer's daughter and at 19 had a five-year contract with...
...garlands rained through the air. Loyal subjects yelled their throats out. Their Majesties, smiling, nodding, drove over brick paved streets lined with every uniform in Siam: boy scouts, girl scouts, the army, navy, police and diplomatic corps were out en masse. Even the thousands of naked children that normally clutter the streets of the city were swathed by their proud parents in bunting...