Word: raucously
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hammer thrower might use in hurling a toy balloon; they reached for comedy like a first baseman trying to catch a butterfly. Josephine Hull played Mrs. Rodney with great cunning, while Dorothy Stickney, who was a mad murderess in Chicago, brought down cheers for making Claudia Kitts as raucous as a finger nail dragged across a blackboard...
...Bored, Dot window-shops on Eddie's forty-a-week, but Eddie refuses to buy furniture "on time." Finally they find a drab little apartment where Dot busies herself with pink ruffled curtains, neat drawers of kitchen utensils, and (rather than an abortion) "keeping her baby," to the raucous tune of "something good on the radio"-the delirious Democratic Convention of 1924. Follow the usual pangs and pains of childbirth, told with unusual explicitness. The usual nine months occupy 125 pages...
...Senator Heflin had many last words, including raucous sideswipes at Candidate Alfred Emanuel Smith. One phrase made the galleries guffaw. "Mr. President," Heflin said, "I have no religious prejudice. I am simply a wholehearted American...
...jury sympathized entirely and last week, after 19 minutes deliberation, decided that Defendant Remus had been temporarily insane and was not guilty. "American justice! I thank you!" shouted stout, baldheaded, raucous Mr. Remus...
...five weeks, Judge Chester R. Shook of Cincinnati, and a jury of ten men and two women, listened to stout, baldheaded, raucous George Remus, attorney, defend stout, baldheaded raucous George Remus, accused of murder. The two Messrs. Remus were physically one-and-the-same man, but Judge Shook was impotent to prevent them from acting as separate entities in his courtroom, where they convinced the jury that still a third stout, baldheaded, raucous George Remus had committed the murder...