Word: heckler
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...pining Albert Bacon Fall and New Mexico's brusque, new, young figure, Senator Bronson Murray Cutting. His ire at Senator Cutting was aroused by the latter's voting to seat Senator-suspect Smith of Illinois. In the midst of a tirade, he was cut short by a heckler, Editor E. Dana Johnson of Senator Cutting's Santa Fé New Mexican (daily). Cried Editor Johnson: "Why didn't you tell him to his face...
...night of Candidate Coolidge's speech and the air was to be "cleared" earlier than usual. But Mr. Davis, speaking from the very rostrum from which Candidate Coolidge was nominated in June, found time to denounce the tariff and the Republican record and to squelch a heckler who bawled out "What is your stand on the Ku Klux Klan...
...speakers had pretended to pay no attention to this heckler, until Henry Allen, since then Governor of Kansas, came down from his hotel, and appeared, as I remember it, to second the nomination of Roosevelt. He, therefore, had no forewarning when this melancholy heckler with the peevish mortuary voice whined...
...mistaken it was an Attorney General of the United States who was speaking in Boston, when a heckler came down the aisle and bawled out: 'Why haven't you prosecuted the trust octopuses...
...answer sent the heckler staggering back up the aisle...