Word: clamorous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With his first issue (15,000) sold out, Publisher Collins will not be able to fill any new subscriptions (now $24 a year) until January. He figures that he can add another 10,000 in a year. Then, if as many readers clamor for Kaleidoscope as expected, he will have to decide whether or not to convert his trade magazine into a high-priced competitor of Vogue and Harper's Bazaar...
...short order, he reduced three giggling university coeds to a trance-like state (a fourth coed continued to giggle and was excused). Hypnotist Friend, who was careful not to beam his big, brown eyes at the television audience,* will not do another hypnotic show, he says, until televiewers "clamor and clamor and clamor...
Setting her designer's mind to work, Elsie soon had a dress that made Edna look both slender and stylish. A clamor for copies convinced Elsie and Edna that they should go into business. They pooled $500, hired three seamstresses and rented a small shop in a strategic location-the Medical Arts Building, where most Dallas obstetricians have offices. Thus, ten years ago, began a business that has grown until it is now a U.S. merchandising sensation: Page Boy maternity clothes...
Congratulations . . . It comes as a welcome relief to find someone brave enough to suggest that with all its clamor and clangour there is possibly a word to be said for New York City...
...Graveyard Scene gets down to earth as it never can on the stage. The whole dueling sequence is splendidly shaped, dipping from the high quietness of Hamlet's great words with Horatio (The readiness is all) into the steely clamor of as slashing a piece of swordplay as the movies have offered since the prime of the elder Fairbanks...