Word: heckler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...What have you got in your locker?" cried a heckler. The audience guffawed. The Senator asked the sergeant-at-arms to restore order. Chairman Raskob pleaded with the crowd to behave...
...Your husband wants to be Prime Minister!" taunted a heckler...
...boomed out his usual nonsensical speech, twirled his halter, cried: "I wear no man's halter around my neck but thank God, I've got one real friend in the newspaper business. He's a Democrat and his name is William Randolph Hearst."* Up rose a heckler to shout: "And he's got his halter around your neck, you lying skunk, Bill Thomp son." Eggs began to splatter over the stage...
...monthly editorial: "Drippings from the Fawcett." In elaborate metaphor he voices his love for the common people, liquor and the "pleasures of living"; his hate for Prohibition, reformers, censors, etc. etc. He enjoys referring to himself as "this bristle-whiskered old sodbuster." to his wife as "the henna-haired heckler." or "my weazened old Red Head." He relishes a reputation as a benevolent reprobate. His glory is a stag party. Famously hospitable. Publisher Fawcett built a lodge in the wilderness on the shores: of Pelican Lake, 170 mi. west of Duluth, to entertain his friends (among his guests have been...
Almost at once the galleries became full of fist fights. Not in years has British Labor's turbulent left wing given and taken so many sanguine noses. No less than nine ushers had to join forces to eject a burly young heckler who kicked and punched while he howled: "In the name of our 2,000,000 unemployed-down with Ramsay MacDonald...