Word: raucousness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they will probably sing, sleep or wax playful. Precisely that has occurred on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange almost every trading day for the past two months. Astonished visitors saw sights and heard sounds that would shake the faith of the blackest capitalist. Specialists dozed through raucous japery and ear-splitting versions of such old Floor favorites as "Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie" or "The Wearing of the Green." Oldsters yawned over backgammon, clerks wrestled and punched each other...
...Senators settle back for a quarter-hour's solid amusement when he strikes such a forensic vein as inspired his essay on the Democratic Donkey: "He is a braying compendium of stately dignity, stanch endurance, fortitude and patience. ... In our quadrennial Presidential campaigns there is more music in his raucous hee-haw than in the midnight minstrelsy of a nightingale. The donkey is a serio-comic philosopher, whose stamina and stoicism conquered the wilderness . . . a sure-footed creature of epicurean taste and gargantuan appetite, but whose appetite and taste, happily enough, may be assuaged and satisfied by a nibble...
Apparently it all came as a result of some diligent and somewhat annoyed youths who took it upon themselves to throw waste-basketfulls of water upon rowdy, raucous men in the streets who were disturbing the peace. The fun grew to larger porportions with the pelting of automobiles with larger quantities of water. This caused a small group to gather between Lowell and Leverett Houses on Plympton Street, a gathering which immediately grew to larger proportions as more water fell...
...mountain top of this third-generation betrothal had never crossed before. Rather, the one from Frankfort and the one from Troy had run parallel for nearly three-quarters of a century. Jacob Schiff was too urbane, and George F. Baker was too smart, ever to become embroiled in the raucous battles of the market place. Occasionally they had backed opposing forces but always with the fine disinterestedness of a French munitions maker. More often than not they acted in harmony to keep the peace. The present head of the House of Schiff was a Kuhn, Loeb partner when he inherited...
GERMAN SING-SONG: Lowell Roof, located in a delightful spot overlooking Mt. Auburn Street and the bright lights of Manter Hall. Gets rather raucous as the night waxes on. Good place to take a Radcliffe Girl, better than the Germanic Museum. If you can play a carrillon they will supply...