Word: grew
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Grew so riotous during debate upon a motion to break off relations with Soviet Russia, that the Speaker was obliged to announce temporary adjournment. Impassion keynoters...
...Foolin'. Beneath this inconspicuous nomenclature lies a show bursting with opulence. On the opening night it played till midnight. It showed dozens of gorgeous scenes, scores of glorified girls, countless songs and scenes. So great was the supply of everything that the mind wearied and the tastes grew tired. One wished that Mr. Ziegfeld had condensed his entertainment. Such condensation will unquestionably occur before ten days are gone...
...Three months ago a tourist picked up in Cyrene a fragment of an old bust and brought it to Rome; Guidi set out with his assistants, and for three months sifted the shallow loam of the old coast town for other fragments. Piece was laid to piece; the statue grew like a head emerging from the casual, apparently unrelated strokes of an artist's crayon, until at last it stood complete and the wide marble eyes, the straight nose descending under the helmet's shadow, the curling beard still dusted with thin flakes of gilt, revealed the face...
...called him Octans. It was extraordinary that they should be sharing this "tazza" thus. "The absence of conventionality sent the blood to her cheeks." But "she was cognizant of the crises that impend in all human breasts" and considered that "innocent intimacy was preferable to unacknowledged proximity." She grew deeply attached to him; he of course worshiped her abjectly; they lived together through months of celestial bliss, gorging on succulent, ambrosial fruits, observing luxuriant inhabitants of the air where "giant ferns grew rank by fetid fens." Octans neatly despatched a ghost leopard that infested their paradise and all was serene...
...Under-Secretary of State Joseph Clark Grew LL.D...