Word: echoing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Christmas-time has always been the time for singing. The Yule festivities have changed from country to country and from century to century, but song has always had a part in them. Whether it is unconscious echo of the song of the angels over Bethlehem, or because music is the highest expression of the happiness that is the heart of the Christmas season, no one can tell. It is enough that men sing who do not sing at any other time...
Crowded streets echo "We want war!" Six thousand youths parade and shriek "Death to the enemy!" The Government incarnate, the very front of the people's Jove, places its hand in its waistcoat and replies patriotically "If war is necessary we will...
...acoustics of the Garden are guarded by an anti-echo covering of cork on the walls, so that the arean normally devoted to sports may on occasion be devoted to the arts with a concert or opera entertaining the customers...
Since that day, the family has hewed marble. When Columbus set sail in a tiny caravel, a Fabbricotti was grunting, hoisting marble blocks. When Washington shivered at Valley Forge, a Fabbricotti sweated under a hot sun, polishing and smoothing white stone. When a World War became the echo for an assassin's shot, Fabbricottis heard not. They were quarrying marble...
...less pleasant echo of Wartime days came bellowing last week, from that brilliant yet brittle strategist General Erich von Ludendorff, once famed as the "Brains of Hindenburg." Today Ludendorff appears to be the victim of delusions of persecution and a strange religious mania. The too-brilliant, too-brittle brain has seemingly snapped at last...