Word: raucously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...went-to visit Britain's Lord Beaverbrook, to roam New York's subways or to inspect the drought areas of the Southwest-she went along. Childless, and with little to occupy her but New York's fast social life, she regularly did the rounds of raucous nightclubs and the more discreet Park Avenue and Long Island parties...
...that is a work of love and shows it. To the facts presented in Malcolm Johnson's 1949 Pulitzer Prizewinning stories on the New York waterfront (in the late New York Sun), Novelist Budd Schulberg (The Disenchanted) added the results of his own investigations. The product strikes the raucous but curiously subtle pitch of the great port as surely as an octet of harmonizing tugboats...
Died. Frank Hague Eggers. 53, onetime (1947-49) mayor of raucous Jersey City; of a stroke; in Jersey City. Tenderly nursed in politics by his uncle, Boss ("I am the law") Hague, Eggers cut his political teeth on city and county judgeships, served four years as Hague's personal secretary, was appointed (and later elected) to the city commission, then, when Hague stepped aside in 1947, to the mayoralty. In 1949, with Eggers in charge, the Hague machine collapsed at the polls, stayed collapsed despite Eggers' comeback attempt last year...
...last Sunday, 1 changed my mind about the bells. While many undergraduates lay in their beds and others, indecently awake before noon, anxiously studied for their exams, the bells rang. The sound was deafening. There is no excuse for such raucous noise. At least during reading and exam periods, the bells should be silent. Christopher A. Smith...
...Stuttgart, Germany, Dr. George Fahrbach, president of the West German Association of Nature Lovers, demanded that a law be passed against picnickers who carry portable radios. His modest hope, said Fahrbach, is "to prevent songbirds from being drowned out by raucous radio jazz...