Word: clamorers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when applicants besieged him with calls, he hastily switched to the 550-seat Women's City Club auditorium. The women all but broke down the doors; 300 without tickets were turned away. Few of the 583 registrants missed a session; bankers and corporation heads began to clamor to get on the list of guest lecturers. Last week Smith had 1,100 women on the waiting list for his second course, to start in a few weeks...
World Federalists say that they don't want the Davis kind of irrational clamor for world government. They want people to think about world government; they want to get people interested in their program. The U.W.F. claims that this program is far from "starry-eyed." The Federalists don't propose immediate disarmament just as they don't propose a military defense alone. A policy statement made last year says that the U.W.F. is "under no illusions concerning the character of the Soviet regime," but "there may be a chance" that the Russians will accept some sort of federation. If that...
...maintained a private game preserve near Paris, but, said a friend last week, he "never went in for displays of wealth. That would not occur to him." In the '30s, the world was swept by a pacifist wave of indignation against the Undershafts and the De Wendels. The clamor against the "merchants of death" was largely justified, but its main effect was to keep the U.S. and Britain from being well enough prepared to prevent World...
...throughout the country interest her most. She sees in them the best way of perpetuating the taste she has done so much to develop. The many programs she has presented at Harvard are typical of what the Foundation has done in every major college in the country. The resulting clamor for more testifies to her success in popularizing chamber music...
...miles southeast for an interview with Communist General Lin Piao, who refused either to see or talk to them. Red guns resumed their shelling and Communist troops stormed across a dike surrounding the city to capture the North Station. At week's end it looked as if the clamor for peace in one of China's largest cities had been silenced-by the surging tide of Communist conquest...