Word: raucousness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dance; dancing is an expression of happiness. They slouched, two pairs walking slowly side by side, chained together at the wrists, the odd man lurching along alone, around and around the small roped-off circle before the spectators. Around and around they went, slowly, slowly, sometimes to raucous noise from a jazz orchestra, sometimes only to an inner rhythm of their own, around and around, slowly, slowly. The members of the audience kept close watch on those five faces, haggard with six months fatigue, indisputably young but drawn and lined beyond the power of rice powder and rouge to conceal...
When about midnight the lights went down for the amateur floor show, Huey Long went shuffling off to the washroom. There were others there. The raucous Senator was impatient of any delay. Imperiously he ordered a young man to stand aside for the "Kingfish of Louisiana." "Take it easy-take it easy," replied the young man. Unable or unwilling to restrain himself, Senator Long proceeded to commit a gross indignity upon the young man. When he felt what was happening to his leg the young man wheeled around, drove his knuckles with all his might into the offender...
...being a fake, writing a bad check, stealing the engagement pin he has given his fiancée and running away in a stolen car. In a weak third act he returns to disprove all charges and the family revives its punch-drunk fortunes in the stockmarket. Characters: the raucous, cynical daughter (Claire Carleton), the daughter in love (Nancy Sheridan), the lazy, acquisitive son (David Morris), the shrewd, big-hearted mother incapable of discipline (Helen Lowell), the speculating uncle, the unsuccessful suitor who makes pig faces to register loutishness, the stereotyped count and the rich, disapproving aunt. Weighed down with...
...muckraking expedition will Lord MacMillan conduct. Last week in Vancouver, when raucous Barrister McGeer implied that the Commission was being paid to entrench the established banking system in Canada, the Scots Lord dropped his tactful manner, declared it "a monstrous suggestion." (The Commission gets no pay, only expenses.) Chief problem before the Commission is whether to recommend establishment of a central bank in Canada. "Nationalization of credit" and other radical experiments are not likely to appeal to its economically cautious members...
...Sacramento to Oakland. In San Francisco's Palace Hotel the Governors ate off a $500,000 gold service while Communists fussed noisily outside. They gaped in awed silence at the wonders of Yosemite. At Hollywood they were smiled on by pretty cinema girls. Los Angeles gave them a raucous booster welcome...