Word: sundering
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Engaged. Paul Oscanyan, radio purveyor of news from Greenland; to Helen Sunder, only woman wireless operator in Denmark; by radio, sight unseen...
...dispute allegedly threatened to disrupt, split and irrevocably sunder the entire party. No alarm was felt, however; Rome was amused, hilarious, even enthusiastic over the daily ebullitions of the four disputants. Then the Facist fiat put an end to their fulminations. The comedy was over. Rome smiled and turned expectantly to II Duce for the next thrill...
...cave-in. One would like to hear what chills fluttered down his spine as he saw the strangely sagging ice, knowing what emptiness lurked below but not what quips might strike above. Perhaps like Napoleon at Ratisbon, he mused, "my plans to earth may fall" let yonder crevices sunder inches more...
...country to paraphrase that of another. Nevertheless, they were abominable poetry Some of the lines possessed a certain insipid grace; far more of them had the stilted, fustian air that can only be characterized by the adjective "operatic." Such lines as "Naught my sweetheart from me shall sunder," "Thou'dst best beware," "I know not what I'm saying or what I'm doing" were hackneyed when Alfred Lord Tennyson was a litle boy in Lincolnshire and completely outmoded long before he was an old man in Aldworth. Such archaisms as "dight," "say him nay," "fain," such cliche?...
...Handel Aria, "But who may abide", L. R. Ring Handel Arabesque, Vierne Allegro Vivace, Vierne Legend, Vierne Professor Davison "The Little Sandman", Brahms Slumber Song, Brahms To an Aeolian Harp, L. R. Ring Brahms Chorale Prelude, "Was Got tut, ist wohlgetan", Karg-Elert Chorale Prelude, "Ach Herr, mich armen Sunder", Kuhvau Toccata, Boellmann...