Word: weltered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...manuscript were made in several tongues, which scholars and explorers have annotated through the centuries. The present volume is the classic translation by Scholar Marsden of England (1818), edited now with reference to the most modern scientific research and with an aim forgotten since Marsden's time, in a welter of notes, namely, to make the Polos' travels readable primarily as rare narrative...
...else could do so. Returning from the World deadlock at Geneva to his own National stalemate, the exhausted Aristide told pressmen wearily that there was little to choose between the two. Then he smiled (no one knew why) and metaphorically plunged like a cheerful old walrus into the fearful welter of Chamber debate. Throughout the remainder of the week, his rich cello voice boomed...
...meantime, Dreiser's publishers blare forth with sensational advertisements; America's foremost living novelist, as they declare him to be, has written "with the artist's loftiest vision" a tremendous book. Somewhere in all this welter, it seems to me, must be a kernel of truth. Perhaps it is in the significant fact that "An American Tragedy" is being far from phenomenally sought by the book-buying public...
...Dreiser has declined to improve his knowledge of the English language, and while he is a painstaking reporter, he is a very indifferent craftsman. For him it is more honest to ramble on for 840 pages than to attempt compression and readable sentences. Genius gleams fitfully through the welter. Mr. Dreiser observes life broadly, with great detachment and a cumbersome irony not unlike Hardy's. He is at times mystical, but more often merely confused...
...only time I ever saw him, was over in Ypres in 1917. He was fighting four British machines at the time in a welter of anti-air- craft fire. ... I never had an encounter with him, but he killed a friend of mine named Captain Robertson in the summer...