Word: clamoring
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...clamor of the House dining hall, where he is eating with a friend whose conversation satisfies, pounds in his cars. As the decaying pork is placed on the table, the Vagabond leaves, looking straight before him, intently and desperate. He proceeds, with irregular stops, to a class. His legs are shot through with stabbing pains, and twist them as he may, he cannot soothe them. The lecture speaks more and more slowly, his words finally arriving in a heaving rhythm which leaves the Vagabond with faint shudders. The class closes, and he wanders forth, counting the brown boards...
Publishers, like other advertisers, cry "Wolf! Wolf!" to a semi-attentive public. Their combined clamor is so deafening that it is hard to tell when one of them is really in earnest. Consequently, in those blue moons when they have something to shout about, a sharp-toothed masterpiece may slip undetected into the gentle reader's fold, cause much silent havoc before the alarm is given. Though Publisher Dutton has sounded no extra-special warning, Solal is such a masterpiece-in-sheep's-clothing. Wolf would be a misnomer: nothing so leonine has come down the pike...
...them open again. The machinery for such an operation was enormous and Mr. Woodin had scant knowledge of it. Day after day he strove to master new details at his cluttered desk while harassed bankers gathered in his outer office from every quarter of the country to clamor for Treasury concessions, instructions. Night after night he worked until 2 o'clock at the White House whence he would go directly home to the Carlton Hotel for a few hours sleep. Not once during the seven-day ordeal did he drop his good-natured smile. Not once did his grey...
About 1924 Depression seemed to strike a great number of obscure noble Italian families, churches and monasteries. Dealers were able to offer rich clients the most extraordinary treasures, objects that had evaded the researches of biographers and art students for centuries. With great clamor the Boston Museum paid $100,000 for a Renaissance tomb identified by Italian experts as the work of Mino da Fiesole. The Metropolitan Museum bought an archaic Greek statue. Miss Helen Frick got an angel by "Simone Martini"-the list is endless...
...organization before getting American Friends of the Hebrew University in Palestine to serve as sponsor for the feast. Said the Seven Arts Feature Syndicate (Jewish): "Mr. Landau . . . tied up Professor Einstein's appearance and then peddled his offers to various organizations on a commission basis." In the general clamor to find auspices (and an excuse) for the Einstein dinner, everyone concerned seemed to have forgotten that on March 14 the greatest living Jew will be 54 years...