Word: roar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...German Monarchist press burst into one unanimous roar of anguish, Herr Stresemann demurely stated: "I am leaving with my wife and sons for two weeks of quiet in Switzerland, which will include a visit to Locarno...
Above the roar came M. Briand's answer: "No! I am not such a coward as to accept this sacrifice. Never! If you resign, I resign...
...After the christening ceremony the engines on the larger plane were started for the first time since they left Wright factory. They responded to the starter with a rataplan of cylinder explosions that soon mellowed into a roar. The mechanics said they were satisfied. Captain Wilkins announced he would not attempt any more ambitious tests, such as taxiing across the field, until the crowd had dispersed...
...bend in the Smoky Hill River, near Sharon Springs, Kan., a white cow observed one of last week's sunrises, ruminatively as was her wont. But she never finished that morning's cud. At 7 o'clock the ground yawned beneath her with a rumbling roar and she was swallowed up, with a section of her pasture, into the bowels of the earth. That at least was what people thought had happened...
...have been discovered. Every week some alumnus glimpses a new and enchanting prey, gives a view halloo and writes to the Bulletin about the pleasures of the chase. There appears an aesthetic issue: the contention is raised that the club should confine itself to music that allows it to roar like a lion at supper-time. There is an etymological issue which drags in the somewhat recondite but undoubtedly interesting fact that the word "glee" is derived from the Anglo-Saxon "gligg", meaning music...