Word: bellowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recently turned up in the Empire's new Labor cabinet as His Majesty's Right Honorable Secretary of State for War. Last week generals fumed, colonels smarted, and subalterns rolled out rich round oaths-all because War Minister Shaw, at a rally of Socialist constituents, had bellowed what they considered mollycoddle sentiments respecting Egypt. To a British fighting man Egypt is the last country on earth which the Empire can afford to mollycoddle. Egypt with her Suez Canal is the road to India, and British soldiers have been guarding that road for decades, right or wrong...
Macbeth is a play, not so much of men and women, as of the wind and the darkness, witches and their gloomy cries. It has been played a thousand ways, by actors, steeped in the colors of their trade, unmannerly breached with gore, who bellow and rant, who incarnadine its multitudinous sea of words with bloody sound and fury...
...course hard-boiled men in barracks do rollick and bellow, especially at the Sovereign and the Empire they love. But Victoria, no Hard-Boiled Queen, missed the too-blunt point and was irrevocably insulted...
...goatlike manners. If he used such mannersin ordering a copy of Liberty, or Snappy Stories, it could be understood, but not with TIME. Furthermore, I have been buying magazines and newspapers at the local stand in the Statler for many months, and never have I found it necessary to bellow or spell the name of the publication desired, as the intelligence of the young ladies employed there is high enough to make ill-advised such loudness. GEORGE O. HOCKETT Detroit, Mich...
...true aesthete slips unbeknownst into the orchestra) are those who have come really to appreciate and to enjoy the sonorous grandeurs of the opera. For them the occasion is more than a display of what adorns the better vertebrae. And, contrary to fiction, an ability to eat spaghetti and bellow bravo is not a requisite for inclusion in the intelligentsia...