Word: echoeing
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...least four hundred undergraduates will need no application of the parallel. Westmorly, Russell and some parts of Randolph echo with profanity every morning when the Church of St. Paul begins to announce determinedly that time is passing. Why avoid nine o'clock if this tactless timepiece is going to insist on such an unpleasant fact early and often? If one relies on the chimes, they are sure to hibernate in winter; and the time they indicate is always more original than accurate...
...Senato likewise opened its sessions with an oratorical tribute to Mussolini; cheered him to the echo; and drank in the (for him) undramatic message in which the Premier thanked them for their good will...
Premier Baldwin was cheered to the echo for asserting of Foreign Minister Chamberlain, "Every one of us [in the Cabinet] is proud of him!" Continuing, he launched into an assurance that British industry is at last recovering from its long standing period of depression. ''The waters are falling and our spirits are rising . . . [but] I should have thought that those . . . whose one unfailing remedy is the strike or lockout . . . would have learned more from the Great War. . . . In home affairs the speeches of too many leaders smack of the sword and battle axe. . . . Differences there must...
...annoying" or "scandalous" events marked the bombing and shelling of Damascus, "oldest inhabited city in the world," by order of General Maurice Sarrail, French High Commissioner in Syria. Impartial witnesses placed the human loss at 1,000 lives, the property damage at over $10,000,000. L'Echo de Paris cried, last week: "General Sarrail is a senile, stupid, brutal sadist ... a criminal ... a bloody tyrant!" Meanwhile the delicacy of M. Painleve's position was rendered acute by the fact that M. Herriot, leader of the Radical-Socialists,* declared a few months...
...Daily Herald, founded in 1882, was the second daily newspaper in the University. A small sheet called the Echo had started three years before, but failed quickly, when the Herald was brought into the field. In the first year of its existence the Herald did many things that advertised it all over the country. The city dailies gave it credit for getting out "extras" in the quickest time ever known in the newspaper world...