Word: roar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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North Dakota sent up a Catholic who denounced the Klan. There was a spontaneous roar, mostly from the galleries. The anti-Klan
...unfamiliar are the Gauls, seeing the much-laden tenders labor shoreward, with hearing a mighty shout go up to Heaven, with hearing an answering roar from the U. S. S. Pittsburgh, with seeing some 300 picked American athletes spring ashore to the blaring strains of Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Here and The Stars and Stripes Forever...
Next to come forward was Mrs. Elizabeth P. Martin, the first woman ever to be Chairman of one of the major committees of a Republican National Convention. She presented the report of the Committee on Permanent Organization, naming Frank W. Mondell of Wyoming as Permanent Chairman. With a roar for her and a roar for Mondell the Convention agreed...
...this the women delegates went wild. The men expressed approval. The other was a provision giving the National Committee power to oust any committeeman who refused to support the Convention's nominees?a threat for the Wisconsin group if they should turn from Coolidge to La Follette. The roar of approval which this provision produced was as great as that which had followed the clause for equal female representation. Wisconsin sat stolidly in its seats. There was no opposition to the adoption of the report...
...summery afternoon the bugle blew and 50,000 eyes turned to the gate from the paddock to watch the procession up the track. At the starting post Harry F. Sinclair's Mad Play, the favorite, Sande up, drew inside position. Up shot the barrier with a deafening roar from the stands as the horses simultaneously broke to a splendid start. Mad Play gained an immediate lead by saving ground in rounding the first turn. Hard pressed for the whole 1⅛ miles, Mad Play succeeded in maintaining his lead and finally won by 1½ lengths from Bud Fisher...