Word: raucously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...figure is stout, her bust formidable, her manner blunt. Among the urbane Oxford and Cambridge tones of the House of Commons, her voice sounds rough and raucous as a Liverpool fishwife's. In the mannered cut-and-thrust of debate, her points are as emphatic as the slap of a wet cod across a face. Newspapers poke sly fun at her, other M.P.s snicker at her, county squires snort: "She's a disgrace to public life." But among her constituents in Liverpool's grimy dockland, Mrs. Bessie Braddock, M.P., is a beloved and admired champion...
After two raucous years at Arizona, Craig went back home and applied for admission to the Indiana University Law School. At first it appeared that he would be turned down, but the dean of the school, who may have been appreciating a kindred spirit, looked him over and decided to let him in. The dean: Paul Vories McNutt, who had been national commander of the American Legion, and was soon to be governor of Indiana...
After overcoming the raucous hissing and applause of an amused but discourteous audience, Flynn explained his views that "the liberals of America are really the conservatives ... defending the encroachments of big business...
...justice. Put Team All Together has some clever lines and a certain among of slick repartee. But nearly all the good lines are given to the nurse, played by Barbara Lawrence. The authors wrote the part as a jaded cynic; Miss Lawrence plays it as a raucous floozy. As a result, the lines sound completely improbable, and what humor there is falls embarrassingly flat. Miss Lawrence at least brings ample physical equipment to her duties...
...have always been able to deal, in our own good way, with our more obvious demagogues, but how shall we deal with the new demagogues, who speak calumny, not in the raucous tones of a Huey Long, but in the winning accents of Jack Armstrong, the Ail-American Boy? How shall we deal with a Richard Nixon...