Word: rend
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Liveliest was the Town Hall meeting which opened with a few amiable pleasantries from moonfaced, unctuous Alexander Woollcott. Up rose shock-headed Lewis Mumford, author of Sticks and Stones, able commentator on modern U. S. architecture, fervent Wrightite, and proceeded in a slow, booming voice to rend the ''wise men from the East" who are designing Chicago's Fair...
...Vallee began the interview with come remarks concerning his days at Yale when he and Peter Arno were to other there in the same class. But the rend of the conversation soon turned to his relations with his large public about which he talked with extreme frankness. He refused to discuss what he thought to be the secret of his popularity on the grounds that he felt that as an artist he should not discuss that side of his personality. He added that he spoke very openly on that subject in his "Vagabond Dreams Come True", a work from...
Gloom, black and well nigh impenetrable, has settled over the ancient halls and stained glass windows of Elihu Yale. They say it reaches almost to Camden. Feline yawps, augmented by the throaty bellows of the Theological Students, rend the quivering air. For on the eve of one of the classic gridiron spectacles of the East, news of a most alarming nature has trickled through to New Haven. (The above use of "trickled" is with deepest intent, as will appear shortly...