Word: raucously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Louisiana Democrats last week fired the first salvo in the internecine war that will harass Democrats in general and National Chairman Paul M. Butler in particular right through the 1960 presidential election. In Baton Rouge the state committee, in a raucous, televised session, fired their national committeeman, Camille F. Gravel, Jr., 43. Grounds: Lawyer Gravel loyally supported the national party's civil rights platform...
thief crook cynic (swimfloatdrifting fragment of heaven) trickstervillain raucous rogue & vivid voltaire you beautiful anarchist (i salute thee dive for dreams or a slogan may topple you (trees are their roots and wind is wind) trust your heart if the seas catch fire (and live by love though the stars walk backwar
...member of the Yankee party had any "bushville" comments about Milwaukee this year. They still remember those raucous boos and catcalls of a year ago when some misguided soul--nobody knows yet who it was--cast aspersions on the name of the city. Casey Stengel flared up briefly yesterday when the incident was mentioned...
...time. He was well on his way to becoming a national figure. Not only is his volume of pungent comment and reminiscence selling well, but the Carolina Israelite, his one-man, monthly-or-so newspaper (circ. 25,000), is so successful that even Southern neighbors chuckle at his wry, raucous gibes against segregation (TIME, April 1, 1957). What is more, Golden felt perfectly at ease in the old Southern town of Charlotte, his adopted home since 1941, despite the fact that he was no planter's-punch Southerner but rather a Jew from Manhattan's East Side...
...book salesman, appeared in Britain, began dealings that led to his buying the Britannica (in 1901). In 1898, he teamed with the Times of London in a hard-sell campaign to hawk the encyclopedia at cut rates with time payments and advertising. A howl arose over the raucous black-type hucksterism in the grey pages of the "Thunderer." Wrote one affronted M.P. to Hooper: "You have made a damnable hubbub, sir, and an assault upon my privacy with your American tactics." But in a few years, Hooper's whooping sold 100,000 sets of the Britannica, and earned...