Word: clamorous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...boys who called them "Christ boys'' and "bastards." In the next few years the Outside closed in savagely. Stirpiculture seemed to the Community's neighbors no better than turpitude. In 1879, when Noyes was 9, his father fled to Canada to escape the clergy's clamor for his hide. His successor managed badly, quarrels split the Community, and shortly afterward Leader Noyes proclaimed from Canada a New Stirpicultural Policy: get married. Secularism, thus unleashed, ran its course...
...Biblical reputation of the sons of Eli, who walked not in the paths of righteousness, the administration felt it fitting and timely to declare that a course covering the stimulating though delicate field of "Marriage and Famliy Life" would be given during the remainder of the year. Constant clamor from the student body, ably supported by faculty opinion, has resulted in the drastic step which Vassar has undertaken...
...this was printed, eight long years have passed. Trotsky has lived here and there in Europe, always kindling the flame of "Trotskyism" which is after all Communism. Today Trotsky is in Mexico- the ideal country for an assassination- and Stalin continues to disappoint the many Stalinists who continue to clamor for his extermination-but why should Stalin have Trotsky done away with...
After the Civil War, U. S. Negroes began to clamor for official positions with the Government which had set them free. An active early colored Abolitionist was Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, slave son of a slave mother by a white father. When he fled from Maryland to the North after the wife of his master had secretly taught him to read and write, he changed his name to Frederick Douglass, became famed as an Abolition orator and editor. As his fame grew, Northern friends who feared he would be returned to Maryland under the Fugitive Slave Law sent...
Investigation as to what happened to the Veterans of Future Wars, that interesting organization which caused so much stir in collegiate circles, reveals that the Veterans have ceased to clamor for their bonus. In short, the society has gone the way of all flesh, it has folded...