Word: blares
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...stations, travelers read the signs that warned of delays, heard loudspeakers blare warnings that arrivals were not guaranteed. But they bought their tickets as usual. Out of Chicago's Union Station chuffed the Pennsylvania's Washington flyer, Liberty Limited, booked almost solid, as usual. In Newark a commuter electric train pulled out for its dank run through the Hudson River tubes to Manhattan. But out went a notice: that would be the last Hudson & Manhattan train to New York City...
...clown's make-up there was nothing much of a face. Yet the makeup, at first glance, was by no means unstriking. For half the evening, indeed-while its melodrama seemed crouching to spring-He had a jittery tension, a rataplan rhythm, a glare of circus lights and blare of circus music, that were theatrically vivid. Then things got fuzzy and highflown, and the melodrama lost its edge, the atmosphere lost its eeriness. The minor characters became tiresome, and the main character turned operatic...
Even in Marseilles, the sky muted its Mediterranean blare. Along the wide streets the plane trees turned pale yellow. In the still unmended tenements of Madrid, before long now, a people whom victory had passed by would be shuddering...
...history, several new techniques are used. Old newsreels are made to give effective pictures of world events of the time; accompanied by vigorous martial music they create the wonderful feeling of American power without words. The pictures of the political conventions are done with a magnificent enthusiasm. Bands blare, convention heads shout, people dance about madly: Yet the effect is invigorating, and the atmosphere of the political rally is brought across perfectly...
...afternoon last week, workers on B-29s in Boeing's Seattle and Renton, Wash, plants lifted their heads at the sudden blare of loudspeakers. In short, crisp sentences, the bad news came. The U.S. Army, which had planned to cut back Boeing's B-29 production gradually, had suddenly decided to swing the big ax. Instead of 122 B-29s this month, it wanted only 50; instead of 20 next month, it wanted only...