Word: clamoring
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Secondly, the French press has continued ever more loudly to clamor for a Dictator, to bring order out of the present politico-fiscal chaos in France. More and more often the name of Clémenceau has been linked by editorial writers with the "one strong man" whom they demanded...
...State for payment of Ireland's part of the British War debt. The agreement had been ratified earlier in the week by the British House of Commons and the Ulster Chamber. It awaited only the ratification of the Dáil before becoming operative. Why then, so much clamor? Simply because the Irish Republicans have fought long and fiercely to bring back "the lost Catholic provinces of Ulster" into the Free State. Should the present boundary and territorial status quo be recognized as permanent by the Dáil, these aspirations would go glimmering. Hot-head De Valera cried...
...Providence (R. I.) Bulletin: "It is possible that, if proper curbs can be applied, football will regain a secure position where the spirit of the game for the game's sake will take the place of the present clamor for great stadiums and greater gate receipts, high-priced players and spectacular programs on the playing field. Football is a great sport and its best friends are those who regard it objectively, probing to find its faults and know them as well as they know its virtues...
...Christian Science Monitor: "Just now the college game appears to have gone beyond the control of the educational authorities, and there is a clamor in some quarters to curb the sport and place in on a national basis...
...college game remains to be seen. Some claim that it will injure its standing, while others maintain that it will be an aid to keeping interest up. Just now the college game appears to have gone beyond the control of the educational authorities, and there is a clamor in some quarters to curb the sport and place it on a rational basis. The subject is receiving considerable attention at Harvard University, and the daily paper of that college has even suggested that the professional game will do much to accomplish this...