Word: roar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...beginning of last year it had clacked on to the main line and was chuffing up the hump of recovery. Last week, as 1936 came to an accounting close, dispatches of good news were coming in from all over the nation's rail system and the roar and smoke of recovery filled...
When this handsomely engraved official invitation from the Inaugural Committee's Chairman Gary T. Grayson turned up on his desk one day last week, President Roosevelt let out a roar of delight, seized a pen, scrawled across the bottom a note to Chief W. E. Rockwell of the White House Social Bureau: "Please regret this invitation. I will be too busy...
With another roar, the President again took pen in hand, squiggled across the bottom a note to Rear Admiral Grayson: "I have re-arranged my engagements & work & think I may be able to go. Will know definitely...
...frosty February day at the Century's turn, a gangling, 20-year-old Danish immigrant with $30 in his pocket ambled down a gangplank at Ellis Island. He was gawking at the New World's wonders when an impetuous deckhand bumped him from behind, let out a. roar: "Hurry up, you s- o-a b-!" After 37 years, Signius Wilhelm Poul Knudsen, known now as Vice President William S. Knudsen of General Motors, still likes to tell about this introduction to his adopted land, says that he accepted it forthwith as the national gospel. Chuckles...
...background of his literary efforts and, as a true physician who diagnoses the disease, he observed stagnation and inertia and gave us a perfect picture of what he saw around him." But that was the later Chekhov. In his early days he set whole vistas of tables on a roar...