Word: bellower
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Charging that the application contained "untrue statements of material facts," SEC subpoenaed Mr. Jones to appear for a hearing last week. Mr. Jones sent his lawyer. The Commission refused to listen to that gentleman until he asked if he could withdraw the application. Uprose SECounsel John J. Burns to bellow: "You can't go up under the gun of a stop order and then seek to avoid...
...handle of so many brass dinner bells, bonging for order, that the present bell is firmly screwed to the desk, rung by a lever at the top. Like a head waiter, President Bouisson has spent his working hours in full dress. When the bonging of his bell or the bellow of his voice failed to quiet a parliamentary riot, he had one last way to restore order. He clapped his hat on his bald head. When the President of the Chamber of Deputies puts on his silk topper the Chamber is automatically adjourned...
...tongue one morning last week when, precisely at 9 o'clock, the great 1,500-lb. bronze bell on the trading floor boomed not once-the signal for trading to begin-but five times. High up in the visitor's gallery an official uprose to bellow that the market would not open until later in the morning. At 12:30 it was announced that because of peculiar circumstances the market would not open...
...only thing he has done without public dispute since Catholic Hitler raised him from the rank of army chaplain to be the most unpopular head of Protestantism Germany has ever had. To Muller's question "Do you take this woman. . . ?" Göring replied "JA!" with the bellow of a drill sergeant. The State Actress answered "ja" so softly she could scarcely be heard...
...Yorker in its first spring as a reader. Says FORTUNE: "Ross was without taste, either literary or good. . . . Katharine Angell, hard, suave, ambitious, had both kinds and Ross was bright enough to see it. Definitely an antifeminist, he resented her at first, used to tear his hair and bellow that his magazine was 'run by women and children.' But he has long since grown to depend on her, often considers her his most important executive. ... It was she who raised the standard of prose and verse." Her salary as managing editor...