Word: roar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Shoot me first!" screamed Viscountess Saito darting forward and clapping her hand over the muzzle of the nearest machine gun. Instantly both trigger fingers clenched and the double roar of ZUG-ZUG-ZUG began. Bloody was the brave Viscountess' hand as her lord, the Admiral and Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal crumpled and died under the murderous fusillade...
...although not officially confirmed, that Joseph Stalin early last week heard for the first time some of Shostakovich's music, then translated his personal reactions into the lashing Pravda editorial which called the Red Genius' works "muddle instead of music, fragments of melody dissolving into a general roar, scrunch and scream...
...slapped this on the cables, and Japanese editors unwittingly broke the release date. Thus, before Key Pittman opened his mouth to keynote, Tokyo had read his speech. Headlined the Tokyo Asahi: "CHAIRMAN OF SENATE'S FOREIGN RELATIONS COMMITTEE OFFICIALLY ATTACKS JAPAN-Japanese Foreign Office Says 'Let him roar.' " In the main Senator Pittman's theme was that Japan is doing China wrong and that as soon as the Great Powers...
...Press one day last fortnight appeared a cartoon which, if it had been printed in the Communist Daily Worker or New Masses, would almost certainly have caused Representative Fish to intro duce a resolution in Congress and the Hearst Press to roar: "The Revolution is AT HAND." U. S. hunters outnumber the U. S. Army 30-to-1. The cartoon summoned them to take up arms against the Government. It showed a mighty army of sportsmen, scientists, bird-lovers and miscellaneous conservationists armed with double-barreled shotguns and high-powered rifles marching on Washington, forcibly dragging a bewhiskered "Congress...
Every Labor convention must have at least one good, healthy snarl at Capitalism. "Do you . . . stand with the President of the United States?" asked Assistant Secretary of Labor Edward Francis McGrady. Up went a mighty affirmative roar. "Let that," declared New Dealer McGrady, "be the answer to the money bags of Wall Street...