Word: roar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Having been in succession a Protestant, a Christian Scientist, and a Roman Catholic, Mrs. Bertram Brooke went up in an airplane over the British channel to be received into the faith of Mohammed by a red-fezzed dignitary of the Western Islamic Association who shouted above the roar of propellers: "I give thee the name of Khair-ul-Nissa, Fairest of Women." (TIME...
...week the milestone apparently was at hand. Germany, long ago first in the air with a dirigible service, announced that mail plane service across the South Atlantic would start Feb. 3. On that day a Luft Hansa flying boat is scheduled to take off from Stuttgart, Germany. She will roar south and west to Cadiz, the Canary Islands, West Africa, then shoot across the ocean to the seadrome Westphalen, riding in midocean (TIME, Nov. 20). On the fourth day she will alight at Natal, Brazil-a trip which requires nine days by present airplane-&-steamer service. First eastward flight...
General Johnson's hot answer loosed hotter Senatorial wrath. Reiterating his charges of monopoly and ruin for small businesses, Senator Borah boomed. "When those things are remedied I will cease my efforts and not till then." And Mr. Nye cried eloquently: "Nero may rant and roar, but all the browbeating he may resort to will not destroy, though it may delay, knowledge of what NRA policy is doing ... to the end that the plunderbund may enjoy larger monopoly...
From Paradise Cove, scene of many a moonlight picnic on the Marin County shore of San Francisco Bay, six big navy seaplanes taxied out with a mighty roar one noon last week. With their 30 officers & crew they comprised Patrol Squadron 10-F, bound for Honolulu's Pearl Harbor. Except for excited San Franciscans who lined the city's hills to watch the takeoff, there was little commotion over what was to be the longest formation flight ever attempted-2,400 mi. The Navy did not think of it as a remarkable flight but a routine transfer...
...interesting to note in this connection how this show of popular sentiment has quelled the roar of Congressional dissent which greeted the budget message when it first appeared. With the political foresight of glowworms, the Republicans were prepared to leap gleefully on Mr. Roosevelt and see him overwhelmed by public disapproval of his monstrous expenditures, whil they posed grandiloquently as the saviors of their country or at least of their country's credit. Mr. Snell announced that he was so shocked that he did not expect to recover for "several days." The several days have passed and Mr. Snell...