Word: raucousness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Announcer: "The first thing the quintuplets do upon rising with a cheery smile is to--(pause; here the audience should laugh, not altogether but separate, raucous laughs in various parts of the theatre) wash their hands and face. Notice, mothers, how they brush their own teeth themselves. Before, you have seen the girls crawl, walk, and gibber but never talk; now for the first time Emilie, who is squeezing the toothpaste over the nurse's dress, will say "Mais oui' in French...
...Raised at a raucous Bethlehem Steel stockholders' meeting in Wilmington, Del. was the perennial question of whether 75-year-old Chairman Charles Michael Schwab is still worth his $200,000 salary. The old steelmaster was on hand to give the meeting his blessing with an optimistic appreciation of the "complete cooperation and understanding between management and stockholders." Hardly had he finished before that ubiquitous meeting-goer, Lewis D. Gilbert ("U. S. Minority Stockholder No. 1"), rose to propose that Mr. Schwab be kicked upstairs into an "honorary chairmanship" with a $25,000 annual pension. Mr. Schwab, said Stockholder Gilbert...
...Paul Cadmus returned from two years in Majorca, found commissions hard to get. From the Public Works of Art Project he received an average of $35 a week to stay in his own studio, paint what he liked. What he liked was a group of U. S. sailors having raucous and somewhat indecent fun with their molls on Riverside Drive. He called it The Fleet's Inl Down to Washington it went, where Admiral Rodman, Secretary of the Navy Claude A. Swanson, and dozens of other brass hats proceeded to have tantrums. Cadets of West Point begged...
Then along came an Armenian rugman with a luxurious 40 foot carpet but once more Lampy wasn't at home. And then came the climax of the evening. Not a speech by a prominent graduate, but another kind of speaker. One equally raucous, one equally unintelligible, but one of only indirect Lampoon descent. Just an old-fashioned goose. Sibi by name...
...pitiable little pawn of a waiter who went out resignedly for the Austrians and is now seen ready to go out resignedly for the Italians. Alfred Lunt is overflowing with the shrewdness and practicality his part calls for, and if no Middle-Westerner ever heard speech so raucous as his, he has simply gone too far on the right track. Lynn Fontanne is flawless as the London gutter-snipe who, when her hair was red, slept with him in a hotel room in Omaha, and now that her hair is yellow, tells in fine Romanov inflections of her escape from...