Word: clamorers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would have ranked as titans in any era-fighters like Gentleman Jim Corbett, Bob Fitzsimmons and Tom Sharkey. And beaten them each, not once, but twice, before retiring as undefeated champion-only to be lured back into the ring again after six years by public clamor for a "White Hope." But that needless humiliation and punishment did more than just mar Jeff's record-it broke his wife's heart. I've never known a woman as devoted to her husband as was Frieda Jeffries. The next day as the train pulled out of Reno...
...back to A. F. of L., and demanded: "Where, oh where is Dubinsky today? . . . He is crying out now and his voice laments like that of Rachel in the wilderness, against the racketeers and the panderers and the crooks in that organization. . . . And now above all the clamor comes the piercing wail and the laments of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers. And they say, 'Peace, it is wonderful.' " He invited them and their president to follow Dubinsky into the fold...
...memories. He snarls with moral indignation when he thinks of Bret Harte's treatment of his wife, Mrs. Aldrich's treatment of her guests. He scolds about the recurrent miseries of official banquets. "It is an hour and a half of nerve-wrecking clamor, of intolerable clattering and clashing of knives and forks and plates, of shrieking and shouting commonplaces at one's elbow-mates . . . and when there is a band-and there usually is-the pandemonium is complete, and there is nothing to approach it but hell on a Sunday night." He begins to remember imagined...
...India, some 11,000 Mohammedans annually make the Haj. Last November India's Moslems sizzled when the Marquess of Linlithgow, India's Viceroy, announced that because every ship was needed for World War II, Hajis would have to wait for peace to make their pilgrimage. When the clamor continued, the Viceroy had to yield. This year Britain had learned her lesson. With the Axis driving for the Near East, British solicitude for India's Hajis seemed likely to last for the duration...
...last week wondered about Japan's $658,000 market in the rest of this hemisphere, wondered if they might have to expand to supply it. Last week U. S. clothing manufacturers, fearful that the good-neighbor policy might divert rayon, woolen & cotton textiles to Latin America, began to clamor for speedier delivery from the overworked mills...