Word: storms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rushing machines in the morning on the way to classes, in the afternoon, going to the banks or the stores and even in the evening going into Boston. But through all these adventures and hardships, the rotunda looms large as an island of refuge, a safe harbor in the storm...
When the reading was finished, the Democratic storm broke...
...over internal policy. M. Poincaré has interested himself almost exclusively in foreign policy, believing that the ills of France can alone be cured by a settlement of the reparations problem. With a general election in view for April, national politics are gradually pushing themselves forward and a political storm will surely break over the head of the present Premier of France...
...piece de resistance for the critics was Bellows' Crucifixion. There, set amid violent lights and shadows, with "portentous storm clouds swirling over Calvary," a gaunt, muscular, physical Christ depends from the cross. The sweet Christ, the mild Christ, the frail Christ are not there. He is a tremendous peasant fellow. His muscles bulge. His members are large, cumbrous, powerful, those of a toiler, of a great struggler. On his face are the passing marks of the death agony, the last contortions of pain passing in the peace of unconsciousness...
...makings of a small storm seem to be brewing in the Washington teapot. A small revolution is frittering about in Mexico (see FOREIGN AFFAIRS), and President Obregon asked whether he might buy some rifles and other munitions of war from Uncle...