Word: confounding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...second (American Song) last year provoked hyperbole from both directions. Some literary lobbyists thought they heard a great big new voice, thought they saw "somebody walking in America in proud shoes." Left-wing critics thought they spied a little black Fascist in his wordy woodpile. As if to confound their politics, in Break the Heart's Anger Poet Engle has taken care to announce his revolutionary sympathies. And from various European vantage-points (almost every poem has a different postmark) he hurls rude remarks toward his native land. He calls the Statue of Liberty "you skirt," Manhattan "you great...
...thick-headedness from becoming too evident by dropping several hints as to what the proper answer was to some question about Germanic umlaut. Well, we went ''round and around," but it didn't work; I didn't catch on. Finally, in exasperation, he shouted, "Confound you, can't you see what I'm trying to suggest...
...life, but in fact his career was just beginning. Partly to forget his grief and partly because his enemies were trying to discredit his administration of the Navy Office. Pepys threw himself wholeheartedly into his job. He became a walking encyclopedia of Navy affairs, was able to confound almost single-handed the Parliamentary commission of investigation, went on to combat, with varying success, the inadequate funds, irresponsibility and chaos that marked the Navy of Charles...
...Confound the cats! All cats--alway--Cats of all colors, black, white, gray; By night a nuisance...
...Confound the cats...