Word: wrackingly
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...noonday clanguors wrack...
...written about the proper place of athletics in University life. There have been debate and difference of opinion. But on one point there can only be unanimity: the body must be built up and strengthened during this formative period; a sound constitution must be developed to stand the wrack and strain of future years...
...birds trying to clean one another of this filth that defies description, and we see birds made tame by terror of it. We find tangled on the sea wrack masses of black filth that are still living birds, and we have seen in oil, when it has concentrated into long black lines, the horrors of black, croaking phantoms that were still birds...
...applause. Stravinsky seated himself at the piano, played for the first time in Manhattan his Concerto for Piano and Wind Orchestra. "It is," he had explained beforehand to pressmen, "quite in the style of the 17th Century." With amazing virtuosity, his quick fingers manipulated cacophonies; from the tumbled wrack of sound arose the chilled phantoms of dead melodies, smelling still of death-wraiths of Handel, Liszt, Bach, Schumann-jerked on the wires of that thundergod of ghosts, Stravinsky. So far the composer has allowed no one else to play the work in public. Listeners were astounded; critics were baffled. Said...
Vere Hutchinson's "Great Waters," previously announced by the Century Co. as on the way, is definitely to be published April 16, the publishers state. They remind us that the first novel of this young sister of A. S. M. Hutchinson, "Sea Wrack," received from American reviewers a remarkable "press," in which the word "powerful" outdistanced all other adjectives in number of times used. The new novel is described as a romance, and opens with the kidnaping of a young Englishman who has been brought up sober, diligent and respectable, and his carrying off to sea to be made...