Word: cluttering
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Perhaps the Harvard yearlings are a precocious group of nibs and know that it takes more than a stork to produce the numerous progeny which clutter up the landscape. Or perhaps they are just not interested in the juicy topic of typhoid carriers, vitamins, and microbes...
...tactics. Some days your editorials are very good, and other days they are very bad. There are often times when you say absolutely nothing. I have seen spaces in your editorial column where for as much as five or ten inches, there is a vacuum. At other times you clutter it up with playgoers and book-shelves and letters from the student body, such as this letter, and there is literally too much said on your editorial page. Nothing can be said against the news columns of your paper, which are written up in the best sports style...
...onlooker hating violence, Yuan plays no vital part in the revolution that brought Chiang Kai-shek to Nanking. Mrs. Buck's faintly archaic Biblical rhythms, so well-adapted to the peasant and patriarchal life of an older China, falter when she tries to suggest the clutter of the coastal cities and the amazement of a young Chinese in the U. S. Her style has been compared by her more enthusiastic followers to the prose of the King James Bible. Critic Stark Young has attempted to put the quietus to this claim by printing some of Pearl Buck and some...
...head to prevent its rolling heavily off onto the floor the Vagabond groaned from his couch, achieved the window, and peered querulously up into the April sky. The winey sunlight warmed his gouty limbs and made his head contract pleasantly. Suddenly the Vagabond turned and frowned at the disgusting clutter of his room. He saw the remnants of his Vintage 99 (99 cents), his pictures awry, his clothes in disarray. Winter and sottish hibernation. . . Turning again to the window and with a last fine whiff of April morning, the Vagabond strode with Merrimanly grandeur to the shower...
...camp-meeting ground is not a clutter of triple-porched cottages named Bidawee, Restawhile, or Dewdrop Inn, as you state in your article...