Word: crescendoed
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...have been doing in the movies ever since the first Dawn Patrol was made eight years ago. Nonetheless, by the time Captain Courtney (Errol Flynn) and Lieutenant Scott (David Niven) have shared their last toast and their last battle, audiences are likely to feel that the familiar sound-track crescendo of zooming motors and breaking bottles has rarely been heard to better effect...
...notes (of the victrola) swelled, the dull aurora on the horizon pulsed and quickened and draped itself into arches and fanning beams which reached across the sky until at my zenith the display attained its crescendo. The music and the night became one; and I told myself that all beauty was akin and sprang from the same substance...
Five years ago Herbert Sebastian Agar won the Pulitzer Prize for history with The People's Choice. Critical beefing about Pulitzer Prize selections has gone on ever since there has been a Pulitzer Prize, but that time reached a crescendo. Historians called The People's Choice inaccurate. Leftists said it was fascist and critics said its selection on literary grounds was preposterous. Some of the outcry arose because half-a-dozen better works of history were published in 1933 but most of it came from opposition to Mr. Agar's thesis-that democracy was a dismal failure...
...Hitler spoke, the world heard a confused harangue which sounded both conciliatory and belligerent notes. Der Fuhrer again renounced Alsace-Lorraine, he promised that this Sudeten issue constituted his last territorial demand in Europe; and he did not press the minority claims of Hungary and Poland. But to a crescendo of "Sig Heil" he insisted that his present demands be met at once. His listeners know that October 1 is irrevocably...
More harrowing last week to Japanese strategy than any U. S. gunboat could possibly be was the crescendo of Chinese guerrilla activity behind Japanese lines. Tsinan, Shantung's capital, was attacked fiercely by Chinese partisans. Chuyung, 26 miles north of Nanking, was temporarily captured by raiding guerrillas. Most daring guerrilla raid of all was one staged in western Shanghai. Between Nanking and Shanghai were still operating last week no less than 43,000 Chinese regulars in detachments which changed their positions nightly...