Word: knell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Great Depression sank in, many a layman and many a sociologist pondered on what the next ten years would bring. Rightly they foresaw a decade of struggle, of widespread distress, of mounting tension. Hopefully some of them dreamed of a return of the bull market whose knell was sounded when the clang of the bell ended trading on Oct. 24. Gloomily, more of them saw ruin ahead, riots, revolution, convulsions and crisis. On schedule the tests of U. S. strength arrived: unemployment increased, banks failed, riots shook the country...
...Gentlemen, this examination will end promptly in twenty minutes." Pens scratch paper desperately. The Mem Hall clock tolls the death-knell,--twelve o'clock noon. Fifteen more minutes; then ten; then five. People are handing in their blue books, strolling out the door. Vag scrawls the last word in his blue book. Slowly he puts his pen away, closes his book, puts on his coat, drops his blue book in the box, and wanders out into the sunlight,--into freedom. All through...
...question. With millions of radio listeners tuning in, one smart Kieran asked another to give the first line of three poems. Father John muffed Shakespeare's Silvia completely, identified The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (but gummed up the first line), had trouble getting the curfew before the knell in Gray's Elegy. Mused Father John into the microphone in Kieranized Shakespeare : "How sharper than a thankless tooth it is to have a serpent child...
...days of machine rule are numbered," says F. Morstein Marx, assistant professor of Government, sounding the death knell of boss government in an article in the current issue of the Alumni Bulletin...
...Costa Rica's beautiful up-to-date capital, San José, sirens last week blared the death-knell of the very company which supplied them with power-big Electric Bond & Share Co.'s little Costa Rican affiliate which supplies San José and 32 nearby towns with electricity. For a year the Central American Republic's unicameral Congress has engaged in a tiff with Bond & Share. Bond & Share sought a new franchise for its affiliate, asked permission to charge higher rates. The Congress considered the proposed rates exorbitant. Month ago the Congress broke the resultant deadlock...