Word: venting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...himself, a graduate and fifteen years out of college. He is sitting in a room whose floors are a hell of rubbish, and whose walls are decorated with photographs in execrable taste. Two small children are at his feet, scrawling on the floor with large blue pencils, and giving vent, periodically, to low, retching noises. From some far place, the howling of another child penetrates. The Vagabond is disconsolate, and does not realize the significance of the scene...
...easiest way to do this is to build up a solid bureaucracy. In order to be this it was necessary to remove all the Jews now holding office, and to fill the vacant places with loyal supporters. Secondly, Hitler was forced at the outset, to give vent to the personal prejudices of his colleagues and the Nazi rank-and-file. Again, the new German dictator is a sufficiently astute politician to recognize that to hold power he must have constantly before the people a live issue, a body of emotional material to capitalize into votes. Demagogues live on popular hysteria...
...uninterrupted years in steady accumulation and assimilation of the ground-work of the law. That process of laying the foundations is usually felt to be interesting though hard; but it is generally considered exceedingly irksome by the third year. A thesis course would furnish at least a partial vent to this feeling of heavy monotony...
...College and to collecting, but there is need of more unity. It is doubtful in the present state of lassitude whether this will occur, but unless the Society for Contemporary Art takes on a new lease of life, it is difficult to justify its existence except as a vent for the executive urge of its officers...
...bird psychology was tried. . . . You can picture our amazement when after the final announcement was made, just at the big moment, so to speak, when the crowd broke loose, Dicky burst into song, far above the organ and the cheering, and continued thus to sing throughout the ovation, giving vent to his . . . hearty approval...