Word: ranting
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These things the stolid, seawise commander of the Allied fleets in the Indies weighed at his headquarters in Java. When events go badly for Vice Admiral Helfrich, he does not rant or snarl or gloom. He goes grim. This week he was very grim...
...German people last week believed they knew the next turn that World War II would take. No more fools than citizens of other nations, Germans no longer believe the rant and propaganda which passes for news in their press. But they still buy papers for two reasons: 1) to read the Army communiqués; 2) to see what they, the German people, are being prepared to expect next...
...more; he has made it known that he does not like advice. High officials have a difficult time even getting to see Hitler. Sometimes it takes weeks for them to get in to see him on highly important matters; when they succeed, Hitler uses them as an audience to rant at. Hitler is sure every German man and woman is fanatically behind him and his Greater Germany. No one would dare to suggest otherwise or bring to his attention the signs of discontent among the people...
...Cowboy and the Ladies. Both the sentimentality and the rhetoric of Meet John Doe profit greatly by its star, whose personality has a great tendency to de-schmalz sentiment and de-rant rhetoric. Tens of thousands of fans know that Gary Cooper is 6 feet 2¾ inches tall, 175 pounds heavy, 40 years old, and that if he grew a beard he would look rather like Abraham Lincoln. To his friends he is "Coop." Though special tributes are often paid him where young women gather, he escapes such masculine calumny as sometimes finds its way toward the ears...
Because his broadcast's Crossley rating shot up two points when John Barrymore guested for him, Bandmaster of Ceremonies Rudy Vallee made it permanent, announced that the "Great Profile" would rant & glower regularly on his program...