Word: raucous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...honky-tonks and clip joints have vanished from Twelfth Street; the bawdy houses on Cherry Street are now mostly respectable boarding houses. The raucous Chesterfield Club, where the waitresses wore nothing at all between their pumps and their permanents, has been torn down...
Provocation. While American Tobacco was headed by the elder George Washington Hill, Adman Foote had never openly questioned its raucous advertising of Lucky Strikes. "Would you argue with Babe Ruth," he explained, "if he were showing you how to hold a bat?" But after the elder Hill died a year and a half ago and 71-year-old Vincent Riggio succeeded him as president, Foote, like the younger Hill, was gradually provoked to a point beyond the bounds of "respectful disagreement," finally decided to quit...
Seldom in all its 57 years had Carnegie Hall been so jammed-and never so racked by such raucous music. The 200 fans on stage had the most tranquil spot: they were behind the brass. But out in front, the louder it got, the better they liked it. And no band yet had outblown Stan Kenton's for sheer...
...Hindu legend, wells up from underground. At the Triveni Sangam (Meeting of the Three Rivers) last week, a tumultuous tent city had grown up, peopled by 3,000,000 Hindus. By thousands of fires, breech-clouted sadhus (holy men) chanted Vedic hymns. Around the clock a clangor of raucous songs mingled with hymns, flutes with elephant bells, caterwauls with the keening of sacred recitations. The millions had come for the religious festival of Ardh Kumbh Mela, to revel and to bathe where the sacred rivers meet...
Officiating brought raucous protests from the slim crowd throughout the game, and a brawl among both teams and the referee was averted just as the contest ended...