Word: raucousness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Traffic halted on Fifth Avenue, sleepy heads appeared from swank hotel windows as the peacock soared thrice around the gilded rooster atop the Heckscher Building, then to a window ledge on the seventeenth floor of the Hotel Plaza. There, as raucous cries arose from the Central Park Bird Sanctuary, he took off again, landing finally in the sanctuary beside four squawking peahens which had been widowed fortnight before...
...accomplishing that much Manhattan took the initiative of noise abatement for the entire country. This was something for Mayor LaGuardia to crow about. For raucous Times Square is less noisy than the noisiest areas of Chicago or Washington. On the other hand, Manhattan was only commencing what great foreign cities have already accomplished. After midnight no horn-blowing or other cacophony is permitted in Helsingfors, London, Paris, Rome, Tokyo...
...pushed aside his proof to note the information, she approached him, drew the knife from her pocket and "with one passionate movement she drove it home, straight downwards through the naked breast, up to the hilt, then drew it out and cast it down on the plank. . . . With a raucous cry Marat fell backwards . . . stiffened in agony, his eyes staring, his tongue protruding and blood gushing from the gash" to stain the water of his bath. Death was instantaneous, for the blow, clean and skillful, traversed the lung and opened the heart...
...Detroit last week Rev. J. Frank Norris, blatant Baptist lately called from Fort Worth. Tex. (TIME, Jan. 14), began to preach his doctrines of damnation in a tent which he claims is the nation's largest. From a tent pitched nearby came the raucous blare of the Curtis Fashion Plate Circus. Preacher Norris indignantly prayed God to put a stop to this disturbance...
...Before the final, a disgraceful confusion arose. Pamela Barton, 18-year-old star who was runner-up for the title last year, defeated her sister, Mervyn, in the semifinals, then discharged her caddy who had expected a large tip from her if she won the tournament. Next day, a raucous gallery of County Down caddies cheered loudly every time Miss Barton's opponent hit the ball, groaned mockingly when Miss Barton missed, gleefully watched Wanda Morgan win the title, 3 up and 2 to play...