Word: welters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...welter of gardenias and orchids, amid the sheen of many emeralds, in an atmosphere fragrant with excellent things to drink, a new art gallery blossomed last week on Manhattan's artiest street, East 57th, with an opening exhibition that snapped one more spat-button of respectability on the artistic insurgents of 1918: Derain, Picasso, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Matisse. Grizzle-chinned Henri Matisse was present in person to confer a Parisian benediction. Owner and patron of the gallery was beauteous Marie Norton Whitney Harriman, onetime daughter-in-law of Sculptress Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, present wife of Banker-Sportsman William Averell...
...welter of Bulgarian names which the announcement sent rumbling across cafe tables, the one soonest forgotten was unfortunate Journalist Pundeff whose murder was being officially investigated. Every Bulgar realized that Pundeff was a mere symbol. The real battle was between Professor Alexander Tsankoff, Minister of Instruction, onetime Prime Minister (1923-26), and Ivan Mihailoff, leader of the dreaded Imro...
...present welter of things, "Krish-naji sees something saner and finer emerging and a rather soul-sick intelligentsia turn to the astonishing and uncanny vitality of this stripling-scholar, not for bromidic guesswork, but for a bracing challenge to women and men to shake off ''bribe of Heaven and threat of Hell " and stand on their own feet...
...plunged forward on his face, dead. The killer leaped over the body, ran through the stupefied crowd, flung away the gun and a black silk left-hand glove (anti-finger print), disappeared in the swarm of Chicago's midtown traffic. A warm corpse lying in a bloody welter is not an unusual sight for Chicago. This was Chicago's eleventh murder in ten days, its 43rd thug-killing of the year. But the newsgatherers, camera men and police who soon congregated in the pedestrian tunnel were profoundly impressed, agitated, angry. For this corpse had not been a gangster...
Witnesses grew weary traipsing back and forth between the two committees all week long. Their testimony grew jumbled in the confusion of double hearings. But above the welter of words and figures, the loud police court methods of interrogation used by unfriendly Senators, the first poundings and cane thumpings of vehement witnesses, emerged the definite out lines of a real and important division of opinion on naval policy...