Word: bellower
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...response to this gentle warning, the Republican Committee let out a full-throated bellow. "The Republican National Committee," it roared, "will welcome a few prosecutions, instead of just intimidating propaganda designed to scare people, to stop them from talking about high taxes imposed by the New Deal. . . . What is the Department of Justice going to do to Governor Alfred M. Landon? At Buffalo he said that people paid 2? taxes on every loaf of bread...
...fact he is-the Teuton Messiah. He had a Message this year bolder than ever before. In the final build-up of tense emotion, 400 new German heavy bombers and fighting aircraft of all sorts literally darkened the sky above Nürnberg, made windows rattle with the bellow of their motors and brought gulps to German throats. Then, with every radio station in the Fatherland broadcasting his words, with every German who had a radio set instructed to be listening in, and with loudspeakers blaring in the streets and squares of every German city, town and village, Adolf Hitler...
...time, it was done with fear and trembling and even Copey, Harvard's beloved Charles Townsend Copeland, looked, up on the invasion of the first-year class as the approach of doom. For with 1,000 lusty throats, as yet unmodulated by the traditions of the College, to bellow "Reinhart" the prospect was not too pleasant...
...Navy Departments with "almost treasonable'' administration, used the same words and others when the dirigible Shenandoah crashed. Court-martialed and suspended, he resigned, retired to his Virginia estate, from which he emerged at frequent intervals to damn his onetime superiors with charges of inefficiency and incompetence, bellow louder than ever for the creation of a separate Air Department...
...comparison with the polished plausibility of the Squire of Hyde Park. He made no attempt to grapple with the New Deal in argument. His was what his friends would call an appeal to principle and his enemies an appeal to prejudice. A score of times he made his audience bellow with amusement, yet his address was delivered in a tragic spirit. To Al Smith, the Democracy was in danger, and Al Smith was sounding the alarm...