Word: roar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only one person is exposed as the murderer) and various other nefarious strategies. The most plausible offenses are the doping of the players' gloves with a chemical intended to injure hands badly, and a bullet fired by the unseen murderer at a player about to make home amidst a roar of applause. Aside from the fact that the player is shot through the heart at a distance of a whole ball field and a street, the idea is pretty good, as no gun could be heard in the roar of a baseball game. At any rate...
...letter insinuating that the American Legion could be induced to lobby against the Arms Embargo Bill in January 1933. Colonel Goss believed they had been so induced. Up from the committee table rose Senator Clark, one of the Legion's organizers and its second national commander, to roar: "If any member of the Legion took such action he is a disgrace to the Legion and should be expelled. It is an absolute prostitution of the Legion." Chief Legion Lobbyist John Thomas Taylor denied he had worked against the Arms Embargo Bill...
...Forges and Schneider-Creusot, Germany's Krupp, Britain's Vickers-Armstrong, Czechoslovakia's Skoda. First companies called before Senator Nye's committee were Electric Boat Co. of Groton, Conn, (submarines) and Driggs Ordnance & Engineering Co. (antiaircraft guns). Those who expected to hear the cannons roar had to content themselves with a volley of cap pistols. The business ethics of these companies might be low but their volume of trade and general influence in world affairs was even lower. What made their testimony important was that they are primarily dependent on war or the fear...
...roar of laughter followed his reading of the first two paragraphs, followed by even more hearty enjoyment as he followed down the page. "The adjective is a bit unfortunate," he bellowed, pointing out the "bombastic" with which he was characterized, "but all the rest is true...
...hold up white cotton stalks. King Mumbra is now a house servant. The White Mistress tells the story of Moses in Egypt. A rifle sounds. The lights flash back to the cotton field. The chorus sings "Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen'' against a mounting counterpoint of cannon roar. "John Brown's Body" alternates with "Dixie." A clash of cymbals brings sudden silence. A Negro Abraham Lincoln reads excerpts from the Emancipation Proclamation. From the cotton fields the crouching figures straighten up to sing ''Rise, Shine, Give God the Glory...