Word: crushing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other hand, what doth it profit a man if he ignores a piteous Lampoon to fling his wit to the night winds of Boston? And how regrettable the spectacle of him who forsakes the scrimmage beneath the goal posts to plunge headlong into the disorderly crush around the sausage and scrambled eggs. Undeniably it is Harvard's business to make men but whether she is to make them purely for the satisfaction of the daughters of leisure in Back Bay remains to be seen. Husbanding the golden Jane has been deplored since the time of Omar, but it may still...
...directed to extirpate them from the face of the whole earth. And that I will spare neither age, sex nor condition, and that I will hang, burn, waste, boil, flay, strangle, and bury alive these infamous heretics, rip up the stomachs and wombs of their women, and crush their infants' heads against the walls in order to annihilate their execrable race. That when the same cannot be done openly I will secretly use the poisonous cup, the strangulating cord, the steel of the poniard, regardless of the honor, rank, dignity or authority of the persons ... at any time...
...anagrams are too difficult), but also to his bright reflection of the city-dweller's curious combination of cynicism and sentimentality. The Brooklyn girl of his first novel has not enough of the cynicism to guard her against too much sentimentality, so she flounders miserably through a crush on the high school football hero, a passionate affair with a marine sergeant (1916), and a restful flirtation with a traveled gentleman, until finally she contracts a commonplace marriage with the silent man who had loved her all along. Adventures with football star, hearty marine and grey-haired oldster fell drably...
...length he held the strings of that ruler's considerable money bags. The needs of princes first, and later the needs of governments, were the opportunities of the Rothschilds. The wars of the Allies against Napoleon, the collection of the French indemnity, the efforts of Metternich to crush every outbreak of liberal ideas-all these required money. The Rothschilds provided it, at a profit...
...graduates of colleges more normal in size and scope. They will be more inclined than ever to hold that mass production is inapplicable to higher education. If only for the reason that the imponderables, the community sense, college loyalty, individual recognition appear to be lost in the crush at an institution whose total registration is greater than the entire population of many a flourishing city. Providence Journal