Word: storming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...beautiful sight that can be found in New York. ... If the builders . . . paint the bridge black it will be scarcely visible. ... It will lose all its gleaming beauty. It will be humdrum and ugly. Now, when the sun sets, the red bridge is glorified into burning scarlet. When the storm clouds gather, the red gleams through the threatening darkness in unequalled splendor. Rising beyond the solid green of Central Park, the gorgeousness of the rich red hue is heightened." Artist Barclay, apostle of scarlet magnitudes, is not so famed as a John Singer Sargent or a Joseph Pennell. But more...
These remarks evoked a storm of criticism from the foreign students gathered at the meeting, and the speaker was met on all of his arguments. It was argued that the present trend of materialism has concentrated its efforts for the benefit of the people now on the spot, a position diametrically opposed to that with which the country was established and settled...
When Captain John Smith was considered to possess the unfortunate qualifications of Jonah to the extent of causing a storm at sea, he suffered the same punishment of being cast forth from the ship; but on account either of his greater endurance or of the extra-ordinary lack of great-dish at the time, tradition has it that he out-Jonahed Jonah...
Best shot: top of a spruce wagging like a sinister head against a window in a storm...
Muddle. There had been six "big" unsolved murders in New York City in the past 18 months. This looked like a seventh. A storm of reproaches and sarcasm gathered when, after ten days, no arrest had been made. Newspapers hinted broadly at "Protection...