Word: shedding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...group of military and naval adventurers and numerous former Premiers (Kafandaris, Papanastasion, Michalakopoulos, etc.). For a time anarchy loomed. Eventually General Kondylis, mixing bluster with serpentine intrigue was able to form what he called "a business cabinet." The "recalled" President of the Hellenic Republic, Admiral Konduriotis*, was persuaded to shed a constitutional refulgence over the following ministry...
...kerosene lamps shed garish glimmer on yellow pine walls, rows of stolid Vermonters, a white-surpliced young rector. The President and his wife came down the lane, down the aisle, sat down. Few looked at them. . . . The rector spoke, modernistically, then made an appeal for money for new hymnals, since the old ones had been stolen by souvenir-seekers. The President gazed vaguely at his 80-year-old uncle, John Wilder, singing lustily in the chorus in spite of the fact that he had fiddled for dancers far into the night before. ¶While the President and Mrs. Coolidge tour...
...afterwards, taken not lightly, give him flashes of the same gathered intensity that comes in moments of imminent destruction. For a time, convalescing from a wreck, he finds "rounded contentment" with a supple, unpossessive Cornish girl, Jennifer. But she dies in childbirth and Tom wanders the oceans again, to shed life's monotony at last by sailing a flaming ship into a towering waterspout. There is much overwritten "psychology" in the book, but also much sensitive color-the reflection of a ripple crossing a ship's eager figurehead like a smile; a cloud of gulls "flickering like white...
...Deauville a slender woman appeared on the beach in a bathing-suit of green-stitched ostrich plumes, tossed from her shoulders a corresponding peignoir, plunged into the surge. In a moment she emerged, her costume as bold as ever. The feathers, put together with a new waterproofing process, shed water like a duck's back...
...bear defends her cubs. . . . An Indian child and crone slay a swimming moose with a hand-ax. . . . A cunning wolf robs fishnets. . . . An Indian tries to sell his frozen baby as dogfood. ... A pickerel attacks a gull. ... A starving fisher outwits a porcupine. . . . An old man enters a shed to feed 18 unchained lynxes. . . . An Indian lad fills his dead father's post piloting the steamboat down a snaggle-bouldered Alaskan river...