Word: raucousness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Broadcasting pious and patriotic sentiments last week, the 84-year-old voice of President Paul von Hindenburg suddenly changed into a young man's raucous shout: "ATTENTION! The shadow of Communism is over Germany! PROLETARIANS UNITE...
Republican Beedy: Only one man rises in dissent. [Raucous Republican laughter and applause...
September is here--and thousands of sport writers breathe a sigh of relief and greet the football season with two-inch headlines. Once more the stadiums swarm like great cement hives and raucous crowds watch the big blue, green, red, or gold team sweep to victory. Again the great God Pigskin is enshrined in the hearts of the mob and "over-emphasis," "commercialism," and "subsidization" lead the catchwords flung back and forth among athletic purists, writers, directors, and old grads...
Last year he had sharing his office two raucous instructors. They whistled incessantly, "and always the same tunes, and always off the key. Remember that - always off the key. It is important." To order them to be silent was impossible for kindly Professor Shaw. Besides, their reaction might be more strident whistling. He thought of a ruse. For the university daily he wrote an article shaming whistlers in general. But the paper did not print it. Last week some New York University students who work as "campus" correspondents for the local dailies were be wailing the scantiness of university news...
...high spots of the big "welcome home" party given for Cinemactress Marion Davies in Los Angeles last fortnight (TIME, Oct. 5) was the sudden entrance of a crowd of raucous newsboys. "Extra! Davies Returns!" they yelled, rushing among the guests and passing out copies of a paper...