Word: clarioning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clarion call resound- We must cut the workers' wages...
Easily could Cartoonist Crosby afford the $1,455 expense of sounding his clarion in the World. Skippy and his colleagues- Cuthbert, Sooky ("Always belittlin' "), Yacob, Aunt Gussie, Uncle Louie (the glassblower)-gather over $100,000 a year for their creator...
Meanwhile, the Commission's Chief Accountant William V. King was busy at the Piney, Pa. plant of Clarion River Power Co., which the company claimed cost $11,032,816. He recommended that $6,387,731 of this amount be struck out, including such promotion items as $144 for neckties, $4,000 for cigars and dinners. The Clarion company was furious. Seizing upon the Attorney General's New River decision as precedent, it applied for an injunction to prevent the Federal audit at Piney from going into the records as true...
...workmen swept down Andrássy Street, looting shops, smashing windows. The three most expensive restaurants in Budapest, the Edison, the Western, Weingruber's (beloved of plump monocle-eyed Ferenc Molnar) were gutted. Piling chairs, crates, table tops to make street barricades the mob raised the old polysyllabic clarion of Communism, "Long Live the Dictatorship of the Proletariat...
...many a year a bust of kinetic little Dictator President Augusto Bernardino Leguia has stood in Lima's Governmental Palace bearing the clarion inscription NO FIRMO! ("I Will Not Sign!") This is a reference to the oft-told tale of how, on an occasion since commemorated as Character Day, he refused to sign his own abdication when threatened with death (TIME, Sept 1). The memorial still stood last week, when a hasty paintbrush edited the inscription to YA HA FIRMADO! ("Now he has signed...