Word: clamorous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...size. American Circus Corp. was the management company for Sells-Floto, John Robinson, Hagenbeck-Wallace, Sparks and Al G. Barnes circuses. In absorbing American Circus Corp.. Mr. Ringling in one all-embracing gesture eliminated competition in a manner which in almost any other field would have excited public clamor and governmental disapproval. But a circus is not a necessity of life and there is a certain justice in the fact that there now undoubtedly exists that "Greatest Show on Earth," as which every circus has billed itself from the time when the first tent rose, on the first...
Resulted confusion, clamor and a search for Banker Waggoner. There resulted also the taking over of his Telluride bank by the Colorado banking department. Banker Waggoner was traced to Lincoln, Neb. There his trail vanished...
...Smoot Plan. The present duty on world sugar is $2.20 per 100 lb., on Cuban sugar $1.76. Loud have been the protests against this increase, ominous the warnings to consumers. To quiet this clamor, Senator Smoot proposed a scale of sugar duties that would vary inversely to the wholesale New York price of sugar. His purpose was to stabilize that price at $6 per 100 lb. Insistent was he that it would produce sugar rates lower than those in the House bill. The top rate in the Smoot scale would be $3 per 100 lb., the bottom $1. Cuban imports...
When the Portland convention heard this charge there was indignant clamor. Dr. Thomas Clark Chalmers of Manhattan declared: "In this election at Washington, it was I, always known as a wet, who was Dr. Morgan's manager...
...Manhattan is a dance hall called Roseland. Here, in a ballroom, wide and long, two orchestras manufacture music which substitutes speed and clamor for melody and merriment. Here, with set faces, dances nightly a band of "hostesses." From vaudeville (where they have failed) they come, from little towns that seemed too slow, from little flats that seemed too small. Dancing is no pleasure to them. Dancing is their business. Be it the breath of a drunken sailor that blows warm past their cheeks or the wit of the dullest tomlinson that assails their ears, they must dance and sometimes smile...