Word: storming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mouth. He said it would be a long time before he would see the Philadelphians again, "and, incidentally, hear you," he added. He marveled that the newspapers should have divined that he would never return, since he had never had such a thought himself. He raised a fresh storm of applause by saying he and his men had, he believed, succeeded "as well as is humanly possible." He lamented that his Orchestra had not been sent to exhibit its excellence in Europe...
...results to come out of the Burrus survey. The law on diminishing utility seems to work in the world of athletic panaceas and to date this report which parallels in some ways the plan proposed recently by President Hopkins of Dartmouth, has failed to stir up the looked for storm of discussion. And yet the suggestions are sound, the changes practical in the extreme. Now that the excitement and novelty of the first cries for athletic reform in the colleges has died down, the general attitude seems to be one of mild approval in theory and of indifferent tolerance...
...storm of industrial insolvency which had been gathering over Japan since the disastrous earthquake of 1923, burst last week and forced the resignation of Premier Reijiro Wakatsuki's Cabinet...
...earthly crown of power, 9) resisting the temptation of Satan, 10) partaking of the Last Supper, 11) being tortured by the Roman centurions, 12) being condemned by the mob who chose Barabbas for pardon, 13) crucified, 14) hanging on the Cross while the earth is torn by melodramatic storm and quake, 15) rising from the tomb, 16) appearing again before the disciples...
...Remain Holland (translated by Van Wyck Brooks)- Henry Holt ($2.50). "They came there, they set fire to everything. . . . We ran away. Whenever we stopped, we could hear their feet galloping behind us. They were coming like a steam roller, the whole sky was black with them. Like a hail storm coming up. . . . We ran and ran." To this, the way people scampered away from the terror of the German invasion, Author Rolland, pacifist, finds a parallel in the way people let themselves be driven by the hail storm of their emotions...