Word: tensions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...long lists of pension bills which daily fatten the Congressional Record are largely for military veterans, their relicts and heirs, or for retired Federal employes, in cases technically irregular under the tension laws...
...this is easily over-looked as are certain confusions arising from the legal turn which is taken in the final act. The constant interplay of the frivolous with the tragic, makes one forget the obvious flaws as the audience is carried from the tittering stage to one of extreme tension...
...doubt meteorologists and physicists would deny such a phenomenon, but to the Vagabond the day or two leading up to a "big game" week-end seems to be lived in an atmosphere of steadily growing pressure. Tension gradually develops with the first appearance of curb-side speculators and new faces in the streets. On Saturday morning, with phonographs blaring forth the Harvard songs and marches from every dormitory; students rushing their girls up and down the streets in a seemingly aimless fashion, and dozens of hawkers with feathers and souvenirs nobody ever seems to buy, it reaches its high point...
Suddenly, surprisingly the heartbreaking tension snapped, as Il Capo smiled his peculiarly magnetic and friendly smile. With a few courteous sentences the host reassured his guests. He had called them in, he said, not to deprive them of their livelihood, but to dispel the false impression that the Italian press is not free, and to call upon them for industrious, intelligent support during the Italian electoral campaign of next Spring...
...Amid the tension thus created, Edward of Wales was observed to be in irritable mood. Even for this the alibi was perfect. His Royal Highness had submitted to typhoid inoculation on shipboard, had run a temperature for four days, was obviously not up to cricket. Upon landing at Mombasa, Kenya Colony, T. R. H. proceeded to Nairobi, the capital, where they put up for several days at Government House with Governor Sir Edward W. M. Grigg, before plunging into the interior of Africa after big game...