Word: raucousness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bang, bang, bang went the gavel. To a raucous crowd of leather-skinned oil promoters, sharpers, frontier businessmen and Indian chiefs William Henry Murray, convention chairman, announced that, by a thumping majority, they had approved the constitution which was to make Oklahoma the 46th State* of the United States of America. Place: Guthrie, Okla. Time...
Adjectives used with good reason to describe it were "raucous" (the loudspeakers, the barkers, the blatant souvenir-hawkers); "stupendous" (the vast buildings, the colored domes, the lighted causeways); ''bewildering" (the endless exhibits, the jostling crowds); "disorderly" (the hodge-podge of scientific displays and Coney Island peep-shows); "interesting & instructive" (the industrial exhibits, the historical displays; but, even more so, the naive, gum-chewing, beer-swigging crowds); "wearying" (the 82 miles of exhibits, the hard gravel walks, the heat); "exasperating" (the incessant cries of "'Yeah, Folks!" "Step this way folks." "Hot dawgs, hot dawgs!" "Mister, have you tried...
Volume. For three months the towns & cities of the U. S. have heard with rising pleasure the raucous music of the whistle. It is national recovery at an unprecedented pace, a strident prelude to National Recovery by Executive Command (see p. 12.). The percussions have been abundantly recorded in the cool abstractions that are indexes. Last week electric power production soared (for the sixth consecutive time), to 91.7% of normal. Steel production, most potent barometer of basic industrial activity, surged up another 3% to 47% of capacity, more than three times the rate last March. Bank clearings went...
...even know the encyclopaedic facts concerning the French Romanticists of the gaslit era and the battlefields of the Sturm und Drang may be an open book to him. But it is questionable whether or not he is sufficiently prepared to keep his calm in a world of raucous dust cover blurbs, eclectic modern poetry, and rumbling Broadway controversies. Had he been able, for example, as a senior, to supplement his thesis and tutorial stack-work with an intelligent course in modern literary trends and criticism he would probably never have to seek shelter in the almost religious regimen...
...House has become largely a center for serious scholastic endeavor. There is an air of profundity hovering over the lamb and mint sauce, an air of correctness about the entertainments. One finds it difficult to fancy the prim and stainless chandeliers of that sunny dining room jangling to the raucous laughter of a "Shoemaker's Holiday." Men of Lowell find their pleasure in musicales and staid comedies...