Word: racketeered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rapid City became, suddenly, a noisy pandemonium. Mill whistles screeched, fire alarms wailed loudly, people cheered and shouted; through all this racket was deeply audible the steady stentorian drumming of an airplane motor. President Coolidge, a curiously small and inconspicuous figure, stood with a group of Sunday-School children, waving a white handkerchief as he craned up at the aviator who was circling the town barely above the trees. Presently the plane dipped sharply over where the President was standing, then flew swiftly away over the distant hills. The roar of its motor, all whistles and alarms dwindled...
...discussing broadly the question of American worship of size and narrowly the growth of our large cities, he speaks of the commuter who "spends his half hour not in healthy exercise but in hurtling through the bowels of the earth in a little hell of ugliness and stuffiness and racket and overcrowding". Only in a few scattered phrases does he succeed in such apt description, while more nauseating metaphors such as "the toothaches and pimples of our spiritual experiences" abound...
When asked for the opinion concerning the Mexican situation Bob laid the blame on the two factions in Mexico. "Mexicans ain't all there," opined Bob. "They don't know how to manage. Two factions raise all the racket. It's the same in China. The Chinese have so many languages among themselves. We are also more civilized than the Chinese, we know how to act, how to control ourselves. They can only say "no checkee . . . no laundree". But it's different with the Italians. They made good in this country. It it wasn't for them we wouldn...
...steamer President Jackson docked at Manila to the blare of trumpets, hooting of whistles, insane racket of rockets, Roman candles, bombs, pistols, firecrackers. Students of the Philippine Women's College endeavored to sing the Hymn of Freedom. Down the gangplank strode Senator Sergio Osmena, took his proper place in the van of a colorful street parade proceeding through Luenta Public Park where Filipino lovers love o' nights. The Senator, who is credited with having defeated in 69th Congress repressive Filipino legislation, then called upon Col. Thompson, finally issued a statement. Said he: "Americans as a whole have...
...courts of the Red-White Club of Berlin and was ahead in the second set. Clearly, nobility must begin to play. Leering at the commoner who had presumed to confront him, nobility began to make loud sneers about lackeys who had exchanged the rug-beater for the tennis racket and would be more at home serving meat balls than rubber balls. Young Wetzel turned red. Nobility curled thick lips over lupine teeth; articulated his taunts very clearly, so that the gallery could hear him say that the club must be called the Red-White Club because it admitted...