Word: echos
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...twenty-three game baseball schedule announced this morning is the greatest step yet taken toward a real old time spring athletic season. Once more home runs and strikeouts will be on everybody's lips and Soldiers Field will echo to the crack of bats and the yelling of coaches...
...music of tinkling glass, takes place the last act of the happiest tragedy ever told, the "Passing of John Barleycorn." The amendment by which prohibition shall be written into the Constitution, has been ratified at last by the necessary number of states. Well may the tragic minority echo the prophetic words attributed to Nat Goodwin when, blindfolded, he was given water to taste. "I don't know what it is but it will never be popular...
...Like an echo to his words came the piercing call of the bugle as a signal of an air raid. The lights flashed...
There is an echo of a still remoter past in one of the contributions of Mr. Jayne, who really ought to stick to verse if he can't write decent prose. Here is a specimen that the late A. S. Hill should have lived to study: "It is not so much a respect for obtaining these rhymes that we feel, but rather that he is able to work them into a poem so facilely." This gem adorns an essay on "The Inimitable Ingoldsby Legends." Eventually, we foresee, Mr. Jayne will get round to the works of W. S. Gilbert...
...performed so stupefying a task; also, one can only marvel at the enthusiasm that has survived the pains and that has expressed itself in an exuberant introduction. "I accept as genuine every poem in which the author sincerely and reverently calls out through the night and finds an echo of gladness and recognition," says Mr. Schnittkind. It is a dark night and many of the poets seem far from home...