Word: tumults
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...tumult and the shouting of the war have died away. Tales of stark daring fall on ears that have heard hundreds of such tales before. The seamen of the "Suicide Squadron" will not get, and doubtless do not expect, the welcome that greeted those who returned earlier. Yet the world will be eternally, though silently, grateful to those men who, forsaking the paths of safety and even the comparative ease of showing bravery in the heat of battle, have quietly gone about their hazardous task. Theirs, unassuming and unadvertised, is the highest glory...
...that the tumult and shouting that attended the start of the Loan drive are over, and the first flush of enthusiasm has worn off, the real work of the campaign is yet to begin. For the first two days there was a general air of elation and confidence which was fostered by the demonstrations and brass bands that were so much in evidence Saturday. That confidence must not be allowed to become overconfidence. Reports of large oversubscriptions of individual towns and many of the newspaper headlines which seem to indicate that the Loan is already sure to succeed must...
...when one battalion begins target practice at Wakefield. The work of drill, which is monotonous to the point of becoming mechanical during the early weeks, has become intensely varied and interesting. The target practice which will be undertaken by succeeding battalions has in it something, however feeble, of the tumult and thrill...
...contributors had been real collaborators, such brothers-in-blood' as have sprung up, all along the way, in English and French literature. To one who reads faithfully, each year, the melancholy editorials in the 'Lit,' the effect is heartening; for it shows that somewhere, beyond and behind the heady tumult, Princeton stands, visible in form and feature, as definite as intelligible, as susceptible of personification, as Oxford or another...
...Masque Mr. Ecker has composed some original numbers. The opening chorus where the struggling unorganized elements are in tumult is illustrated by a chorus "Chaos," Which the dissonances so much loved by the modern composers are eminently fitted to portray...