Word: clamorous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that will definitely prevent a recurrence of this spring's disaster. Proud, the people have almost without exception accepted food and money from the Red Cross with hesitation and apparently with shame, though certainly their destitution has been none of their making. Neither have they set up any loud clamor for Congressional grants of money or supplies, although the feeling that they have been more or less forgotten by the rest of the country has undoubtedly been a growing sentiment. Said State Senator Scott McGehee of Arkansas last week: "This is not our river. It belongs to the Government...
...Where thought of honor played no part in the inspiration to action, honor, especially of the tawdry vaudeville variety, is out of place following the consummation of the deed. All glory adulation and honor to the pioneers, but when humanity makes step onward and upward without ringing bells whose clamor grows harsh, and firing too loud cannon, that will be news...
...fighting Mike & Ike have been enjoying the ministrations of Mrs. H. T. Tebrinke, Sioux Falls, S. Dak., who claims the distinction of being the only duly dicensed woman second in the world. Mr. Tebrinke, nominal head of the family, manages a stable of boxers. These boxers, it is said, clamor to have Mrs. Tebronke in their corner, preferring her to trousered precedent. She knows her job they explain, and brings them luck...
Issue. The air has been filled, as everyone knows, with clamor for radio regulation. Pending law, Herbert C. Hoover did what he could. The only issue was whether Mr. Hoover and his successors in the Department of Commerce should rule the air, or whether it should be ruled by a commission. The Administration favored Hoover & Successors. Congressman White wrote an appropriate bill and the House passed it. For the Senate, Mr. Dill wrote a bill about a commission, and the Senate passed that. Committees of the upper and lower houses met, worked long, late. That consummate politician, Senator Watson...
...Sacred College was practically "full" with 65 Cardinals last week. Sixty-five is the usual number, for that permits a new Pope the traditional satisfaction of creating several Cardinals of his own choosing without exceeding the plenum of 70. In short, there is a clamor, mild and respectful but persistent, from the ends of the earth that the Supreme Pontiff increase the number of his Senate to at least...