Word: crescendoed
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...will be intrinsically a study in contrasts: a contrast in the grey uniforms "at case" against the Fall bronze of the Yard, and between the spontaneous, vivid motley of fifty thousand civilians with the rhythmic tread of soldiers on parade. And at the Stadium, the counter-point crashes into crescendo. Simplicity, incarnated in the Corps from the Hudson faces across the field unending Variety, personified by the men on the banks of the Charles. Harvard takes a cordial and somewhat selfish pleasure in bidding the Cadets welcome...
...although occasionally the excellence of some one of them draws the warranted applause of the none too copious audience. In fact there is but a single weak point in the performance and that is the conclusion which lets one down with something of a jolt. A rapid and pleasant crescendo suddenly dwindles off into absolute nothing, but is compensated by what goes before. If you have not seen this you most certainly should at the earliest opportunity...
...following morning New Yorkers' ears were filled again with war's sky sounds as the squadron, now augmented to 143 planes, returned for a sham battle. At 1,000 ft. flew the attack and torpedo planes, ever and again diving earthward with a crescendo of open motors. Next above roared the heavy bombers. Scouting craft thundered along at 3,000 ft. High above in the bluish haze flashed tiny fighters. From New Jersey came the huge Los Angeles and a procession of small blimps...
...spontaneously, but Spring is the season for fertility, for recreation. The groups seperate, quarrel, play self-consciously for the first time. A sage appears, the eldest the clan. Face down he asks the bless of the earth and new energy comes seizes the adolescents, sets them to a surging crescendo of relent tom-tom rhythms...
...Fisher. The question: Would he sign a certain official paper which would release from his State's Eastern Penitentiary a certain convict? Governor Fisher told them: "I'll sign it in the routine way when I get around to it." He went on to Harrisburg, unmindful of the crescendo of public interest in the release by the State of Pennsylvania of its most famed prisoner, the No. 1 underworking of the U. S., Alphonse Capone, known to good citizens no less than to gunsters throughout the land as "Scarface...