Word: bawl
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From her position in the wings, Secretary Moir has seen Winnie strut the stage with nothing but a towel about his middle. She has heard him bawl for his mail, his secretary and a scotch & soda all in one breath. She tells of how he took up painting to assuage the bitterness that followed Gallipoli, how in his younger years he had stage-door-johnnied Ethel Barrymore (with little success). But though she is sometimes astute about her idol ("He is 'over-engined' for peace perhaps but perfectly engined, I think, for war"), Winston Churchill remains for Phyllis...
...hall with its kaleidoscope of ever mingling colors and forms? . . . How could the slow, moving, billowy, syrupy music of the 'eighties fit into this new world picture? Youth had to construct its own rowdy modern music. ... So let Duke Ellington and his black boys blare and bleat and bawl with their saxophones and bull fiddles and muted trumpets syncopating the call of the wild. And it is all right. But it's the same old inner urge, the more we change the less we change...
...think such snidery sidesplitting is New York City's Police Commissioner Lewis Valentine. Commissioner Valentine asked: "Why do so many members of the force, when serving a summons, act as though the violation were a personal affront? The violator does not offend you, so why cuss them and bawl them out? I always avoid sarcasm because I always resented it when I was a patrolman and a superior officer directed...
Last night when Colonel "Charlie" got up to speak at his dinner, he still looked as if he were going to bawl, "Break it up, boys, or certain parties will be involved . . ." Instead, he told Harvard in a few simple words that his days of service here are nearing their end. Harvard likes the Colonel, likes the way he has quietly gone about creating Harvard legends--from his finagling with the Sacred Cod of Massachusetts, to the installment of his pet fountains in the Yard. Last night Harvard did its bit in recognition of these and other achievements...