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...would bang his heavy books together, jam them under his arm, and stalk out of the room in the middle of class. More often, he would turn purple, angrily adjust his eyeshade, or ferociously tap his forehead until his rage was spent. "You should be ribbon clerks!" he would bellow at his students. "Ribbon clerks behind a counter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Exit Growling | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

...keep the leader's stroke. Intended to follow Navy anyhow. Can you hear me from up here?" (This last in a frightening bellow...

Author: By Charles W. Bailey, | Title: The Sporting Scene | 5/12/1949 | See Source »

...guest lecturer quite like the count. He was an egg-bald old (69) gentleman who dressed in Army-style suntans, refused to wear a coat or tie, and spent most of his time in a chromium wheelchair (he was badly wounded in World War I). At times, he would bellow at his audience ("Can you hear me in the rear echelon?"), then let his voice trail to a mumble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Always the Etc.? | 2/14/1949 | See Source »

Cambridge might have one of the highest clapper rates in the country, but I hear no beauty when the ponderous tongues of these iron town-criers bellow contradictions to each other across the city. And when three bells disagree regularly as to the time, presumably the majority of them is wrong...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Denounces Local Bells | 11/5/1948 | See Source »

...treated him with proper respect, crippled or not. Twice he came to bat with runners on base, and a buzz of excitement rippled through Yankee Stadium and down the pitcher's back. Twice he banged in a run. The third time, the crowd let go an angry bellow: the Sox, trying to protect a slim lead, sent him to first base on a pass instead of letting him swing at the ball. Joe scored the run that put the Yankees out in front, anyway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Big Guy | 10/4/1948 | See Source »

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