Word: crescendoed
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...table. He had forgotten that these sounds were merely that old Harvard tradition, the Boylston Antique Chair Chorus, in which the chairs, aged to the resonance of violins, joined in horrid synphony. Alas, now he was beyond help and beyond reason. The noises were now growing to a terrible crescendo, now receding, beating about his throbbing temples, laughing, cackling, snarling, howling, roaring! They were after him! They were getting nearer! He stared about him with the terror of a cornered animal. Then he ran. Through the door he crashed, out into the Yard, across the Square, unmindful of cars...
...first time since the beginning of the war, an Italian offensive was being attempted. And there was an even more ominous sound than the crescendo of Italian guns. It came from Rome. It was a hint that the main thing Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini discussed in their meeting on Jan. 20 was a joint general staff. This might mean substantial German help in Albania...
...William Allen White, Verne Marshall, the columnists and the politicians; they were too busy clarifying their positions and branding each other as small minorities seeking to mislead the people. The two weeks of the vacation witnessed a heightening tempo of war fever and of bitter debate, reaching a mighty crescendo in President Roosevelt's defiant message to Congress yesterday...
Main reason for the domestic retail crescendo has been 1) the assurance of future work guaranteed by rising order backlogs, 2) re-employment. Last week the American Federation of Labor issued its monthly employment figure: U. S. employment, which from January through August rose only from 43,103,000 to 44,903,000, by the end of October had jumped to 46,063,000. Yet a disconcerting number of the U. S.'s armament and capital-goods makers were still working only eight hours a day. A cheering announcement - particularly for the U. S.'s remaining...
...Lexa Egon May (a woman) tells us all about Duke Ellington in a letter to the current Down Beat ... "Ellington music is an unearthly melodiousness, full of poignancy and melancholy, wailing of unfulfilled longings, futile suspirations, fugitive ecstacies, insuperable barriers, self-conscious revolt and perilous triumphs, rising to a crescendo of delirious abandon, then diminishing to a wistful despondency, whispering of a quandary of hopes, fears, sadness, hurt, chargrin, unrequited love, and confusion." Solid, Jackson...