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...expect to bray like jackasses, and bark like dogs, crow like roosters, howl like wolves, kick like mules, run like lightning, lie like Satan-all for thee. And now, may faith, hope and power remain with thee until every vote is counted," et cetera...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Hottest | 7/2/1923 | See Source »

...plan of Chairman Lasker of the Shipping Board to take the Leviathan on a trial trip from Boston to Cuba and back to New York with 600 guests aboard has raised a great howl of " Junket!'' from many newspapers, chiefly Democratic, of whom The New York World is the leader...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Trials and Junkets | 6/18/1923 | See Source »

...sounded in the auditorium, but Toscannini, growing furious, relentlessly continued the performance. Several score of workmen who had contrived to get into the gallery, heard and heeded the protesting yells of their comrades outside. They grew indignant, and joined the chorus of exterior chorus. " Down with the management!" the howl from the galleries drowned the music. But such was the respect inspired by Toscannini that the disturbers in the theatre amplified their cries. "Down with the management! " they shouted, " Ma evviva Toscannini! " The compliment, however, did not lessen the clamor. The enraged musician tried for a while to keep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Italians | 6/18/1923 | See Source »

...last of these is a sort of enthusiastic human phonograph whose only task is to howl vigorously all day long, "Shahbash, shahbash" ("well done, well done"). His yells of encouragement, however, are by no means haphazard. Without his mercenary and uncritical praise the Indian slackens at once. With him acting as deputy the Indian employer shows an interest in his men, every stroke of the pick receives due appreciation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TRICKS OF THE TRADES | 5/2/1923 | See Source »

...howl which is arising from disappointed Sophomores and Freshmen over the allotment of Yale game tickets can be compared only to the howl which is arising from equally disappointed graduates. This expression of wrath is not without cause--but at present it is extremely out of place...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TONIGHT | 11/16/1921 | See Source »

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