Word: roar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...arrived last week when Toscanini picked up his baton before the Vienna Philharmonic. In honor of Mozart, he opened his program with the D Major Symphony. Salzburg audiences this year have showered flowers on Mengelberg, applauded Felix Weingartner and Clemens Krauss, cheered themselves hoarse over Bruno Walter, but the roar they gave Toscanini sounded like nothing so much as a Yale Bowl demonstration. When he tried to direct the audience's enthusiasm to the orchestra, he discovered that the players to a man had put down their instruments, were standing and applauding him. To stop the ovation...
...years. If he crossed the Atlantic to Europe he would see slim pickings in the seared fields of France or by the banks of the Danube. And in Germany he would see crops so poor that people must eat potatoes once thrown to the pigs. In Russia the roar of 140,000 tractors hastily harvesting a premature crop, the shrill cries of village children scampering after the reapers to scoop up lost heads of precious wheat, would drive the traveling locust on into Northern China. There he might get his wings soaked in torrents of crop-destroying rain...
...Roosevelt catch phrases such as "We are for the forgotten man!", but the bulk of his campaigning was sheer Canadian hayseed vituperation. Across from his farmhouse "Mitch" Hepburn had established a 15-acre car park and on big nights as many as 20,000 farmer constituents arrived to roar "Good boy, Mitch!" as he berated not only provincial Conservatives but the Dominion Government of rich and pious Conservative Premier Richard Bedford Bennett...
...answer came like a roar: "The highest military virtue is the fighting spirit. It demands roughness and determination. Cowardice is despicable, while hesitation is unmilitary...
...onetime War ace, veteran of 10,000 flying hours. Into the passenger cabin climbed Stewardess Margaret Huckeby, onetime nurse. Four passengers followed them in and, last, Copilot John Barron Jr. "Clear!" cried the dispatcher, and the green spotlight across the field showed clear. Pilot Holbrook took off with a roar and headed north for Chicago by way of Syracuse, Buffalo, Cleveland...