Word: crescendo
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...short howls of mournful hopelessness. A long rattling crescendo of protesting crashes, And a great voice shrieking like a lunatic with the Christ bug, And one eager eye squinting into the distance, searching out the red, the yellow, the cool green signal lights. The song of the freight is the moan and the broken cry of a woman dying in a train wreck, The clear sharp challenge hurled at the moon by a lonely defiant farm-dog, A nocturne in an unknown key torn by the wind from the throat of a steam whistle in a nightmare, . . . An all-metal...
...Nation is one long, but strangely two-headed complaint of the intense rivalry between the universities. The more vociferous head roars a regular Harvard cheer white its meek twin now and then barks faintly that this should not be so, and becomes full-throated only in the crescendo of a mutual anti-Princeton feeling intimated just above the signature...
...Union it would go, with a crashing crescendo that defied the Yard cops, defied forbidding old Sever defied President Lowell himself if said be, and into the living room it would pour, followed by a tidal wave of students...
...other living man. As Under Secretary in 1914 he was the real functionary in Washington while Secretary William Jennings Bryan preached Pacifism throughout the country. Once Mr. Lansing was aroused from bed to digress on international law. It was held "unnecessary to disturb Mr. Bryan." In the tense crescendo of feeling which led to the War, Mr. Lansing succeeded Mr. Bryan, was shrewd, logical, firm. He squashed propaganda, refused to be gulled by German Ambassador von Bernstorff. Elihu Root remarked an improvement in state papers...
...Moses of New Hampshire was plunged directly after the Hoover nomination, persisted and persisted until last week. Senator Moses was the original Hoover-ite in the Senate. He was made permanent chairman of the Kansas City convention. He was widely discussed for the VicePresidential nomination. That was the Moses crescendo. After Senator Curtis was nominated, Senator Moses was widely predicted for Republican National Chairman. Then that title was given to Secretary of the Interior Work. Senator Moses was announced as Eastern manager for the campaign. Then Chairman Work began to function and Senator Moses was announced as just...