Word: endlessly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Feeding news to a President is no easy task. President Coolidge likes his news boiled down. He does not want to wade through endless newspapers, and he does not want to look at any articles that do not interest...
...Gaelicising of everything, down to postage stamps--even when a German professor had to be imported to assist. The national Bernard Shaw, realizing full well that the difference between the English and the Irish was the difference which must inevitably come from their several environments, might have filled endless pages with beautiful logic without producing a fraction of the effect which the cleverly-pointed fairy tales of the Gaelicists attained by appealing to the sentiment of exclusiveness and the Irish feeling for beauty...
...listeners heard a rousing, but polished, reading of the First Movement, with its bold tossing about of thundrous rhythms, alternating with gentle, simple melodies, rising again and again in a seemingly endless succession of climaxes. Then came the swift, breathless scherzo (musical jest) ; then the long-drawn-out, meditative Slow Movement; finally, after fragments of what had gone before, the rich baritone voice of Mr. Royal Dadmun, chanted: "O friends, no more such sound of discord. Let us sing a strain more cheerful, now flowing, a strai-ai-ai-ai-ai-ain of gladness...
...then exchanged bowls of sacred rice-wine. That was all. Thereupon 101 guns announced to the gala populace without that the ceremony was complete. After a royal luncheon, the Prince Regent and his consort led a triumphal procession from the Imperial palace to their temporary residence. "Banzai!" shouted the endless crowd...
...value of prodigies seems much in doubt. Endless numbers of them, with genius in infancy, have come to mediocrity in maturity. On the other hand, many of the world's finest artists have been infant prodigies, witness Josef Hofmann, at the piano, Mozart in composition...