Word: roar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Considered as an Issue, Boulder Dam is not an inter-party but an intraparty Issue, a cross issue. Loudly as California's Johnson may roar against the Power Trust, there are other Republicans, for example Utah's Smoot, equally effective in its defense. Among Democrats, the same split exists. Smith Democrats, if their chief continues consistent with his State record, will be found on the Federal-operation side, with the Johnsons and (unless signs have misled) the Hoovers. Opposed will be old-linesters, like Maryland's Bruce, who think that the Government should be kept from stepping...
Down the side of Pike's Peak, Col., coming at a precipitous rate of speed, with an enormous roar, was seen last week a hairy and runtlike Negro. On reaching the bottom, 48 minutes after he had left the top, the Negro said that he had broken the record for coming down Pike's Peak and that his name was Dolphus Stroud...
Louisville heard the roar of airplanes, the rumble of private railroad cars, and knew that Indiana's 89 realtors had arrived for the convention of the National Association of Real Estate Boards. Marion Stump, chosen to sing the praises of Indianapolis corner lots and bungalows, hoped to win the bitterly-fought "home town talk" contest. Hoosiers, among others, learned that the woman in the family buys the house, after considering these advantages: accessibility to golf courses, colored tile bathrooms, low window sills...
...throng had been caught unready, unorganized, out of its seats. The growing noise lacked spontaneity. It was a rumble, then a roar. It in no way resembled an explosion. But Nominator Me Nab saw that everything was going to be all right so he left the lectern completely and walked back to stand and watch amongst the seated members of the National Committee...
...radio was going. Shortly after the monstrous voice of John L. McNab was heard, at about eight o'clock, the radio sounded as if it had broken. It began to roar, hum, shriek, blare, clatter. The Beaver Man's name had been placed before the convention...