Word: risen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first copies smuggled into the U. S. created considerable critical stir. The Saturday Review of Literature called Miller "the largest force lately risen on the horizon of American letters," while Pound announced: "At last an unprintable book that is fit to read." But when Edmund Wilson wrote that it possessed "a strange amenity of temper and style which bathes the whole composition even when we may find it tiresome or disgusting," Miller wrote an angry reply: "Damn all the critics anyway! The best publicity for a man who has anything to say is silence...
...waiter named Gustl "suffered from a mild nervous disorder," which consisted of brushing the back of his hand (become as sensitive as fingertips) against the hips of women guests. Gustl particularly loved Jewish weddings, "there was such wonderful material for his hobby," so Ludwig, who by then had risen to assistant banquet manager, always gave him "stations with round women, and it was charming to see how he could not do enough for them...
...this year Oregon's pronghorn herd had risen from the 1911 figure of 2,000 to almost 20,000. Last week the State Game Commission opened a five-day pronghorn hunting season outside its refuge, the first since 1911, limiting hunters to one horned animal of either sex but permitting the use of telescope sights on guns. Reason: too plentiful to please farmers, too tame for their own good, many pronghorns have broken bounds, roam nearby ranches at night to steal food...
Such a radical enlargement of the debating fold is ambitious and if it is to succeed, it will require not only the active interest of those 192 men who have already expressed a desire to talk, but also spectator-sympathy from all other students. When the curtain has risen, the play will "take" only if the audience acts, feels, and participates with the cast...
...their eye on the clock and the ice cream was going fast. Vag knew he had to smash up this interference and smash it fast. Suddenly he lashed out: "What do you think, Professor..." But Vag's question was smothered in the scraping of chairs. The head table had risen...