Word: roar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would much prefer to listen to the roar of an aeroplane engine than to the drone of a saxophone. And as for partners--well, she'd "rather step out to a jig with an aviator than with a Harvard man." In fact, the University boys who attend such affairs amuse her. She would choose the company of pilots and mechanics...
Came a sudden cloudburst. Roads were washed out. Impossible to move. Black night descended. Fitfully in their busses the travelers dozed. Came, out of South Africa, a noise like distant thunder, then the full-chested, long-drawn reverberant roar of lions in the bush, a sound no lion makes in captivity...
...half years of struggle and achievement, he did not even condescend to appear in the Chamber, last week, to defend his Government. Though suffering from only the lightest attack of influenza, the wise old "Lion of Lorraine" kept to his bed, and let the demagogs in the Palais Bourbon roar. For periods of five, ten, 15 minutes it was impossible to distinguish any orator's impassioned periods above the babel. When a vote of confidence was taken - on a trifling issue of local politics - no one seemed to care much whether or not the Government went down...
...roar of its guns, As its armies march forth unafraid. Ye never may write a new anthem As stirring, as touching, as fair...
Coincidentally, in Manhattan, murmurings over a new opera house mounted to a front-page roar. Confirmed were the reports that John Davison Rockefeller Jr. had leased from Columbia University a sector of Manhattan extending from 48th to 51st Streets between Fifth and Sixth Avenues (TIME, Dec. 31), and that he had done so with a new opera house in mind. But the Metropolitan's directors continued to ponder their selection of a site...