Word: boundless
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...itself as we know it from the West there is very little which is a relief. The author loses no time in political theorizing or in speculating as to the future of Russia, but steps quickly into the boundless forests of the Yenisei. From there on, all that we hear of the war or the Revolution comes as an echo from the Northwest, or from the months of inn-keepers, shepherds, Lamas, or officers of "Red" of "White" detachments. Once, it is true the Yenisei River, in its springy floods brings a sight that neither author nor readers will ever...
...once had the "quid" and the "plug", the non-smoking rule perhaps will be abolished. Then a later-day Dickens looking on the majesty that is the Senate and beholding each man as a "smoke-vomiting chimney" may well be led to describe the Senate chamber as a "boundless furnace... where a suffocating wind the pilgrim smites with instant death...
Yale is here today with every expectation of winning. The odds favor her--and no one knows it better than Harvard. That is just the reason for the extraordinary feeling of determination, for the quiet optimism and boundless confidence in the fighting qualities of the team, that has charged the atmosphere for the last week. The feeling has been growing daily; there will be an adequate demonstration this afternoon of the fact that a trip over the Harvard goal line will prove a long, hard trail for any Eli--however enterprising...
...shore during the last few years. Kings and Queens ("you said a mouthful!"), musicians and scientists, statesmen and warriors, have crossed the sea to be entertained lavishly and honored in every conceivable way by cities throughout the country. American hospitals is a whose however, our national enthusiasm is so boundless that our most honored guests frequently return home mentally confused and physically exhausted by the continual round of functions that is proffered them. While celebrated visitors are flattered, no doubt, and gratified by the thunder-showers of attention with which they are received, they are liable to postpone their next...
...when some one starts an idea like the adventures of a vamp or the mischances of a comedian in a pie shop, for years we have nothing else. This view overlooks the truly startling originality of the profession when it deals with classic literary materials. Then its imagination shows boundless liberty or at least takes boundless liberties. New York Evening Post