Word: clamour
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...bank-crash era speculated with other people's money or defrauded thousands with their exceedingly watery stocks. The public momentarily roused from its usually complacent lethargy, is clamoring loudly for reforms in banking inspection that recent revelations have shown to be seriously needed. If the clamour persists, some constructive legislation may be forced upon the more or less indifferent state legislatures...
...appeal is written above. The procedure necessary to retain the 150's as a minor sport? Think! act! Talk! Clamour for the game! Since a proof of your opinion about 150-pound football has been required by some "doubting Thomases", be sure to give that proof to them. But on the pressure and never let up until you are sure that we shall have the lightweight game next fall, and the fall after that, and every fall thereafter. Keep...
Before her each with clamour pleads the laws...
...ground that it (the Irish Free State) is the "successor" of the Irish Republic. The dispute grew strong, because Eamon de Valera was present early in the trial with counsel to argue that the money should be turned over to himself and followers who collected it. Each side "with clamour" pled the laws...
...long ago was it? Which war? Why, the Great War, the War against Germany. Something a little more than three years ago hostilities came to an end along the far stretched "fronts". The guns stopped their clamour then; machine guns ceased their reaping; men no longer winced to the shrilling scream of the close-coming shell; there came to be no more need of stiffening nerves and unruly muscles under a relentless will to "stand the gaff" of the War three years ago. Three years. But today our generation is "fed-up" on War stories. There is no market...