Word: pent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Eclipsed for an hour, he turned to his pen. Steadily there flowed out upon literary France the prodigious flood of his pent up genius: La, Melée Sociale, Le Grand Pan, Le Voile du Bonheur, etc., ad infinitum. His published works have swelled to the equivalent of 35,000 ordinary novel-size pages...
...mourners. The tense excitement cf the populace was severe and the involuntary surge of the crowd as it tried to prolong its last look at the majesty of the funeral pomp caused women to shriek and faint. (U. S. newspapers attributed this erroneously to "the bursting of emotion pent up beyond endurance." Berlin crowds, as is well known, are not so hysterical...
Demarsico. The pent-up energies of the Fascist deputies were released in noisy bombardments when Fascist Deputy Demarsico arose to defend his chief, Benito. One by one he took the arguments of Signer Soleri and metaphorically broke them over his thighs. At each snap of the hapless Soleri indictments, the cries of the Fascisti grew more and more delirious. Came the time for paying tribute to the martyrs of Fascismo. Demarsico turned to Soleri, shouted: "They died smilingly, our 3,000 martyrs, to construct something permanent. Make no illusions for yourselves; they have indeed created something permanent; and their sacrifice...
Among the many things which the war was to have accomplished, not a little has been said and written about a twentieth century renaissance. The movement has its prophets. They have predicted that out of the cataclysm of war the forces of pent up genius will burst into full blossoms to lead the way to greater intellectual freedom...
Radical opinion in the United States is at present most effective outside of politics, but there is still the threat of a nondescript third party. The weight of authority seems temporarily to have sobered radical opinion in England, Italy, and Germany. One feels, however, there that radicalism is merely pent-up for the time being. In Russia where the former radicals have become in a way conservative, opinion comes principally from the extreme left. That wing now advocates a new calendar bringing one holiday in every five days and a new day of twenty-five hours...