Word: hails
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mobsters who had torn down the tricolor of France from his Sub-Prefecture and hoisted a Communist banner, to the vast delight of Moscow (see p. 24). While rioters surged around him singing the Internationale, M. Henry grabbed the lanyards and began hauling down the Red flag amid a hail of rivets, bolts and paving stones, one of which bloodied his head. Shouting "Vive la Patrie!", injured Sub-Prefect Henry not only shoved and bluffed his way out of the crowd without giving up the Red flag which he had seized but also rescued the French tricolor. Abashed...
Pennsylvania's Governor George Howard Earle, who last winter had to hail a ride in a truck to reach the State House in time to make a speech, bought an autogyro for commuting between his home in Haverford, Philadelphia suburb, and Harrisburg, learned...
...Dallas, Tex., police picked up a shaggy-haired young man they found on the street late at night, dressed only in long cotton underdrawers. At headquarters he explained: "I'm Heckter. I hail from up yonder by Weldon, Ark. One night maw was reading to me out of a book and she come across a sign that said somethin' about how you can learn to be a great singer from a teacher in Dallas. Maw made me a pretty new shirt, give me some money and showed me the road to git on comin' this...
...signaled the orchestra for a fanfare, announced: "Ladies and gentlemen, we have with us tonight one of the greatest celebrities of the nation, the Honorable James A. Farley, Postmaster General of the United States." Resorting to a defense which he perfected to rebuff friends of Mr. Farley who hail him in hotel lobbies as "Jim," Mayor Smith quickly lighted a cigaret. But the crowd, unaware that Mr. Farley does not smoke, craned necks, goggled, clapped...
Faulkner fans, who have learned to expect some new grotesquerie of abnormal psychology in each new Faulkner book, will find in Pylon what they are looking for on p. 195, can safely hail it as the first description in any language of love-making...