Word: pent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...killed himself in order to see whether his wife had gone to heaven or not suffered from the same infirmity of mind. Critics of journalistic sensationalism should be more tolerant: instead of an incitement to crime, the green and pink and yellow sheets are simply a relief for pent-up curiosity. For this relief, much thanks...
...third Russian Folk song: "At Father's Door". The Volga Bargemen's song arrangement is original and convincing; the "Fireflies" very effectively done. But the third one more than any of the others is worthy of the great powers of the Glee Club; in it, the listener felt the pent-up energy, the restlessness, the subterranean mutterings, the whole background of the Russian Revolution; the Glee Club vivified this remarkable feeling to an extreme degree. No one who heard them will ever doubt their greatness everyone who heard that song will feel confident that of the elements necessary...
...before. The contact with the members of cultured families cannot but be influential. The students are realizing more and more since the war the artificial atmosphere of the College, and they are seeking to break down the fulsome barriers that they feel are artificial, and to let out their pent-up enthusiasm where the "bel-monde" will stop and listen. And it is just here that the undesirable intellectual pawn-brokers that live about Cambridge become important. They are extremely good listeners as well as advisers...
...melancholy task to thread the mazes of Paris in the winter and spring of 1919. Let it be said to Mr. Lansing's credit that he has done it with a less degree of harshness toward the unfortunate American personality involved, and with a more subdued sense of the pent-up wrongs of the Conference than either Keynes or Dillon. Only upon the question of the secret diplomacy of the "big Four" and the Shantung settlement does he exhibit in his memoranda the inflamed state of mind that burned beneath his constant dignity and forbearance. For Mr. Lansing the Conference...