Word: crescendos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most amusing section of a thoroughly hilarious book is devoted to an improvement of Dr. Fowler's "Modern English Usage." He begins with "who" and "whom" and concludes in crescendo on adverbial advice. In all departments the author shows himself a thorough master of his subject and proves conclusively that for sheer lucidity and clarity nothing can equal manual gesticulation a la Jane Cowl. All of which fits in paradoxically with the fact that Mr. Thurber's humor is the product of delicate, well constructed prose seldom equaled by modern American comic writers...
...whirlwind crescendo rose last week the fortunes of the new liberal party, recently founded in Turkey (TIME, Oct. 6) because Dictator Mustafa Kemal ("The Modernizer") wanted his country to have an "opposition party" like other modern states...
Saturday afternoon, with the Harvard football team poised for a try at the hieing point, a crescendo of "block that kick" swept over one side of the stadium. The only element of surprise in this tradition of footballmania was that the vocal effort came from men, themselves undergraduates at Harvard. Add to this the fact that the small colorful team from William and Mary was cheered consistently throughout the game by the University spectators, that on one occasion the referee was roundly hissed when he called a penalty against the Southerners at a rather crucial point, and the display offers...
...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...