Word: haranging
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...Disability, Demise or Resignation?" That Germany has not been driven to the last extremes, became cheerfully apparent when General Litzmann ended his harang as Speaker pro tem, and the Reichstag proceeded quietly to re-elect as its regular Speaker huge Hauptmann (Captain) Hermann Wilhelm Goring, a Fascist who has put on at least 75 Ib. since he took over command of the late, great Baron von Richthofen's squadron of German flying aces...
During the War Hannibal and Luciana suddenly appear in Thalia. Hannibal starts a newspaper and, against all anarchistic precedent, begins to harang Thalians to join the Allies. While grinding his teeth at Communists, Socialists, Pacifists, he grinds his own axe as well. His paper is subsidized by the Allies. His fame and popularity grow to such proportions that, after the War, when he marches on the capitol, Mirasol, he is immediately proclaimed Dictator by the helpless King. For a time, with Luciana helping, he is kingpin. But he needs king-pin-money from U. S. Financier Stedford to keep going...
...Placed the Labor Government in a technical minority by passing 42 to 21 (with 674 absences and abstentions) a resolution which deplored Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald's recognition of Soviet Russia (TIME, Nov. 18). The vote came after a sneering, sarcastic harang by the Earl of Birkenhead, bitter Moscow-phobe. "I am almost convinced by the Government's orators," said the bitter Earl, "that Soviet propaganda is either wholly innocuous or positively beneficial to Great Britain. Perhaps we ought to subsidize...
Diplomats recalled that the President has been at some pains to make it clear that he intended no slight to Anton when he was forced to cut short the latter's ill-timed harang. A note of explanation was later despatched from the White House: ". . . it is not permissible for the President to receive public address from people of another nation, unless they be presented through the usual diplomatic channels...
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