Word: raucousness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...There is no loftiness of spirit in his books, and a book must have a soul to be great." Max Eastman accused Hemingway of having "... a literary style, you might say, of wearing false hair on the chest. . . ." J. B. Priestley spoke of ". . . Mr. Ernest Hemingway's raucous and swaggering masculinity, which I am beginning to find rather tiresome. It is time some friend spoke sharply to Mr. Hemingway." The N. Y. Times's John Chamberlain asked: "Can it be that Hemingway has been writing pidgin English from the start?" *Obscenity deleted. *Discarded in his signature since...
Hence there is a somewhat more workaday point of view throughout the book, and mixed in with the anecdotes, gobbets of such practical information as how to handle drunks, raucous, tearful or belligerent; comparative analyses of drunks, male and female; how to tell when a fight is brewing and how to stop it. Collectors of contemporary Americana should note that the book contains an introduction by Ernest Hemingway. Largely made up of veiled, bitter aspersions on ladies who run salons and write memoirs, it is only too apparently another reply to Gertrude Stein's strictures on Hemingway...
From Salamanca, Franco's raucous-voiced "Radio General" Queipo de Llano, with his usual indiscretion, roared over the radio: "France's day of reckoning is not far off. . . . She has always been a bad neighbor and always acted against Spanish interests...
...Binney Montgomery and her troupe danced their own version of George Gershwin's An American in Paris. Miss Montgomery's choreography followed closely Gershwin's sparkling musical account of a tourist "adrift in the City of Light." The American (Harry Teplitz) elbowed his way bewilderedly through raucous vendors and squabbling shopkeepers, was momentarily absorbed by a gawking family from Kansas. A guttersnipe from the Left Bank (Miss Montgomery) stole his heart. Her Apache boyfriend stole his wallet. Ingenious winds and strings described the American's moods, half jaunty, half homesick. The orchestra revived him with...
...Government swiftly set up a court of inquiry to consider the busmen's claims. Chief spokesman for the busmen was raucous Ernest Bevin, general secretary of London's Transport & General Workers' Union and one of Britain's most powerful Labor chiefs. Secretary Bevin had a double job on his hands: he had to get the best possible terms for the striking busmen and at the same time prevent the strike spreading to the subways and trams...