Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...yesterday, when newspapers were unfolded at Cambridge breakfast tables, the skeleton burst from its closet with a hideous crash. The cognoscenti were competed to realize that the original of the poem was calmly claimed by a village in far away England St. Mary Cray, in Kept, which the poet carelessly visited without making his purpose clear...
Monsieur Henri Beraud is apparently unwilling to let an old tradition die. Instead of trusting a ponderous and modern law of libel to crash his annoying critics into silence he has polished up his grandfather's rapier, frothed slightly at the mouth, and challenged them en masse to a duel in the true Dumas style. As yet there are no indications that the editors who objected to Monsieur Beraud's new novel have entered into the spirit of the occasion by sending their seconds...
...exercise of ingenuity on the part of countless subsequent generations of Greek classes. The whole train--crafty Ulysses, noble Priam, brave Hector, fair-haired Menelaus, together with the attendant array of angry gods and jealous goddesses, and all the clangor of archaic war, the rumbling of chariots, the crash of spear on shield, and the dominating twang of Apollo's silver bow--was thought to be nothing more than the day dream of an idle afternoon, as the blind minstrel whiled away the sunny hours on some hillside overlooking...
...cymbals crash...
...Banque de France repaid the loan of $100,000,000 advanced by J. P. Morgan & Co. at the time of the franc's crash (TIME, March...