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Word: cresendo (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...main, Saltacres is a study in novelists' materials. Reeds, rushes, weatherbeaten barns, pebbled beaches, a whitish sea, gulls and blackbirds gliding and skimming from foam-splashed boulder to knotted and salt-rimed stump, broken love to the tattoo of sympathetic rains and a pathological religions mania to the cresendo of a venegeful thunderstorm, delight the eye and, chaotically enough, provoke the emotions but the relation of these things to a masterful novel is less than that of sand to granite. Not only should, in this case the parts or particles cohere more closely but there might well be other elements...

Author: By G. F. Wyman ., | Title: Polished Wit--Men of Letters and Politics | 6/15/1927 | See Source »

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