Word: roar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Farmer George Jones and his family in their homestead three miles out of Goodwin, the nightly passing of The Southerner was "a comfort," a thing to set watches by. That night, about 7:30 p. m. Farmer Jones and two other men heard the roar of the twin Cyclone engines much nearer than usual, spied the airliner streaking past only 100 ft. above the trees. Suddenly, just after it passed from sight, the smooth drone of the engines ceased in a mighty crash like two claps of thunder. Mounting a horse Farmer Jones galloped to Goodwin, gave the alarm...
Wise Philosophy, ''I cannot better end this message on the State of the Union [a derisive roar from Republicans'] than by repeating the words of a wise philosopher* at whose feet I sat many, many years ago: " 'The human race now passes through one of its great crises. However memory brings back this moment to your minds, let it be able to say to you: That was a great moment. It was the beginning of a new era. . . . This world in its crisis called for volunteers, for men of faith in life, of patience in service...
...utilities nearly all of which are at war with the Government, President Thomas N. McCarter of Public Service Corp. of New Jersey proposed a toast: "To the President of the United States!" Struck dumb, a few men got sheepishly to their feet, grinning. Somebody tittered. Then with a roar of laughter the audience stood and drank. "We are meeting here on a salubrious occasion," said Mr. McCarter soberly. "We are an industry with no troubles of any kind. The only thing we have to worry about is the Italian-Ethiopian...
...continued softly, "What hurt me most was the idea that somebody would say I would burn down the finest seat of learning in the Anglo-Saxon world. It is just like saying I would burn down Goethe's or Schiller's house. ... I did not roar at Thompson, I did ask him, 'What would they say if those Communists burnt down their Oxford...
...again and I seemed to go to sleep." Several women were too quick for Mortimer, riding their cycles off the road before he could bunt them. Near Winchfield the Oakes sisters, Betty and Phyllis, were pedaling to the hairdresser. As Betty neared a bridge she heard a big car roar up from behind, swerved well out of the way, then screamed as she saw it pass with her sister Phyllis spread-eagled across the smashed headlights and the broken bicycle dangling from the radiator. Lance Corporal Mortimer grinned down from the driver's seat. A few yards farther...