Word: peal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...King's reply, bowed himself backwards toward the door, "stumbled over a stool, and fell flat on the carpet. Not a muscle moved on the face of King Alfonso. It was only when the great doors had closed behind him that Nicolson heard from the throne-room peal upon peal of schoolboy laughter...
...planets swim into our ken with the March number of the Advocate. In general, the verse is more distinguished than the prose, due to the unhappy extremes of the "dilapidated three story tenement" realism and the "slow peal of monastery bells" romanticism of the latter. It is singularly unfortunate that so much youthful prose depends largely on never fully-convincing atmosphere for its effect, instead of the simple homely things that the mature writer somehow finds attractive...