Word: raucously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...true that even the Duchess of Valencia's fellow monarchists, who mostly preferred intrigue to demonstrations, found the duchess a little raucous. "The duchess is too temperamental," said one of the quieter kingmakers. When all sides of her case had been heard, the judges had the Madrid court cleared of all but themselves and the prisoner before passing sentence. Then they gave her a year, of which she has only three months to serve...
...father told her she was making a big mistake, and he should have known. The late Captain Joseph Medill Patterson, the moody genius who had made his raucous New York Daily News the biggest U.S. newspaper, said that the suburbs of New York City wouldn't go for a tabloid "home paper." But daughter Alicia Patterson Guggenheim had the stubborn streak of all the Medill clan. Eight years ago, in a drafty garage at Hempstead, L.I., she started the tabloid Newsday, to prove her father wrong...
...Vanity." The "Pisan Cantos" continue in much the same vein as their predecessors; it's still the same old Ez. He still rants against the capitalists and remembers old friends-T. S. Eliot with acerbity, William Butler Yeats with fondness. At times, he is his old brash and raucous self, praising Benito and gleefully shouting...
Reginald Marsh had looked at the people, not the architecture. The bald, bull-necked Yale graduate who says "Well-bred people are no fun to paint," made his beat the Bowery, the burlesque shows, and raucous Coney Island, painted it with a Hogarthian incisiveness and strength...
Quick Turnover. Though the oil strike had turned the peaceful valley into a raucous wildcatters' camp, Cuyama's settlers (30-odd families) had no complaints. Postmaster Eugene Stutz sold his filling station and 13 acres for $125,000 and half interest in any oil found...