Word: caterwaulings
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...biggest guns: Laborite Clement Attlee and Herbert Morrison took to the stump for Labor, Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden toured Wycombe's village greens in a soaking rainstorm for the Tories, and Winston Churchill sent a rousing message urging the voters not to be taken in by the "wild caterwaul of abuse...
...should be held responsible has also injected the manly voice of Vaughn Monroe backed by an orchestra he leads. But more popular still should be the finale when dewy-eyed, earnstarched-haired Miss Hunt sits in Carnegie Hall listening lachrymosely to Tony lead his own composition which features the caterwaul of Harry James' trumpet. It has everything...
Throughout the caterwaul Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, pale-faced and tightlipped, sat imperturbably on the treasury bench. Finally, the speaker said that he was under the impression that the proponents of the censure motion wanted a reply...
...schoolroom full of seated children, all tense, eyes forward, on the alert. Teacher sits tensely too, watching them breathlessly. Suddenly Teacher cries a sharp command. The children spring to their feet, jump up and down, leap on their chairs and desktops, run, scream, yell, pull hair, bleat, catcall, caterwaul, whistle, shout, gibber, bang fists, stamp feet, kick out, fall down, scramble around. Seeing the pandemonium slacken, Teacher joins the spectacle, waves arms, shouts, yells, halloos, squeaks, bellows...
...Berlin, a grand caterwaul was raised. It was alleged, not without reason, that to pay the Rumanian bill would be to create a dangerous precedent ; for other ex-enemy countries might well demand special payments outside the Experts' Plan and saddle Germany with debts that would wreck the Plan, which was designed to collect all that is collectable from...