Word: raucousness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hitherto voteless stockholders. Sole control previously rested in the potent hands of the 200 largest shareholders-"the 200 Families of France" (TIME, May 18, et seq.). With a turn-out of no less than 1,300 excited Parisian and provincial shareholders, the meeting was as raucous as a stormy session of the Chamber of Deputies. It took Governor Emile Labeyrie three hours to get through his scholarly 90-minute report, so often was he interrupted by catcalls, loud expressions of dissent and ironic cries of "Vive la Banque!" Wide open was the governor to shareholders' jokes, for his report...
...industry, is content to go inching along to the Republican promised land. . . . Both conventions were similar, indeed all political conventions are like some vast Indian powwow, a ghost dance making mystic political medicine. ... It is the only voodoo we have in this country-tom-toms, brass cymbals, horns, raucous mechanical noises, yawping howling men, screeching hysterical women, savage dancing, waving banners and oratory. . . ." Of President Roosevelt's acceptance speech immediately following the Democratic Convention in Philadelphia, Author White says...
Most piano companies are tight little family concerns, often officered by grandsons and great-grandsons of the founders, who look down their noses at the raucous upstarts of wind and string. There are 37 piano makers in the U. S. today. In Chicago, W. W. Kimball Co., which ranks high in dollar volume in the medium-price field, has the world's biggest piano and pipe organ factory, makes all its own parts instead of buying them from supply houses like most makers. Kimball sells to dealers on consignment, which is considered sharp practice by most piano...
...Chairman John L. Lewis of the Committee for Industrial Organization. Equally ineffectual was General Hugh S. Johnson, engaged by RCA as mediator. At first the strike was marked by nothing more violent than United Workers cheering pickets on with Sousa marches blared through a loudspeaker. RCA retaliated by playing raucous Victor records from a loudspeaker atop its plant. Music failed as a pacifier, however, when RCA began employing strikebreakers. Pickets jabbed girl employes with pins, hurled eggs filled with paint. From the factory non-strikers heaved back red pepper, hot metal, light bulbs loaded with ammonia...
...office boy, bank clerk. Where an orderly schooling might have refined, this helter-skelter existence served to aggravate the amazing accent of an illiterate Hell's Kitchen ragamuffin which is now his principal financial asset. Stander's first important cinema role was in The Scoundrel (1935). His raucous, angry voice and guttersnipe demeanor stamped him immediately as a new and refreshing type, brought him a Hollywood contract. Since then We're in the Money, Page Miss Glory, If You Could Only Cook, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town and six other major pictures have been improved...