Word: growls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first three mornings I went, coming out each time inspired and glad within. But now I pull down the shades when I come into my room. At every one who mentions the word "chapel," I make a fierce noise, somewhat resembling the growl of a baited bear. I am no longer myself. My soul, I fear, is lost...
...travels President Hoover heard a discontented country's growl. He was booed in Detroit, Philadelphia and Salt Lake City. Hostile signs were flaunted before him. Declared an oldtime White House secret service man: "I've been traveling with Presidents since Roosevelt and never before have I seen one actually booed, with men running out into the street to thumb their noses at him. It's not a pretty sight...
Many an industrious officeholder mired in the backwaters of political money-spending sympathized with Dr. Norris' growl: "The whole thing is picayune. It is easier for the large departments to get a million dollars than it is for my small department to get $10. In pursuit of its penny-wise-&-pound-foolish policy, the city threatens to handicap seriously the work the medical examiner's office is supposed to perform...
...debt payments to the U. S. The President has declared against cancellation but not against reconsideration of debtor nations' "capacity to pay." The Lausanne agreement sharply shrinks that capacity. The next step would be appeals to the U. S. to cut debts. Last week the Senate began to growl a warning to Europe. The President's dearest hope was that debtor nations would have the good sense to keep out of Washington until after Nov. 8 lest they complicate his campaign with an international issue...
...both of them. Arsene Lupin (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) can therefore be considered a triumph of selection and adaptation. It gives both Barrymore brothers, Lionel and John, parts of almost equal importance and allows each to perform his specialty without stealing the play from the other. Lionel is Guerchard. a growling, hobbling, blinking chief of detectives whose duty it is to snare an amazingly subtle thief named Arsene Lupin. Asked how he proposes to do it, Lionel Barrymore snarls: ''Oh, I'll stumble around, growl a little, limp a little bit." It is a very convincing speech, because...