Word: roar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from Lithuania (then a province of Russia). A peddler, Jacob moved into the hardware and crockery business, and at one time the family had four stores. Harry White was born Oct. 29, 1892, at 57 Lowell Street, Boston, in a crowded, busy, tenement district beneath the dust and roar of the el. A nervous boy, he belonged to a grade-school group that met one night a week at the Webster Literary Club, where each boy would write and read a composition and all would discuss them. When the family began to prosper, they moved to Everett, a Boston suburb...
...Annie Get Your Gun) knows how to saddle up his songs and ride them for all they're worth-which, in this case, is not much. Songstress Day, as Calamity, is clearly aiming at the Ethel Merman manner. But where husky Ethel, with her large-bore bellow, can roar out a song until her throat fairly smokes, dainty Doris is more like a Girl Scout with a shiny new Daisy: she's loaded, but hardly for bear...
Working in Silence. On the big day of the show - the 20th anniversary of the Falange's founding-el Caudillo togged himself in the traditional black coat and snug red beret, and trod into the jam-packed stadium. The crowd exploded in a rhythmic roar: FRAN Co FRAN Co FRAN Co FRAN Co! From a lofty dais, Franco hailed the party: "There is no substitute for the Falange! Only by the continued impetus of the Falange can we guarantee the future of Spain." He candidly explained why the Falangists had been kept under wraps since...
Brauer could be brusque; lagging subordinates heard him roar: "You are so stupid." He told citizens of his city, which was old when New York was still Indian territory: "In America they do it thus and so." He wrathfully shoved aside the time-consuming forms and protocol of German bureaucracy that he called "the new totalitarianism of our time." He irritated his own Social Democratic Party by publicly lambasting "shallow, commonplace Socialism, exhausting itself in theory...
...sprinted for the Yard. But the police ignored the bold agitator, and dragged a smirking youth without his Card toward the basement of Lehman. Now thinning, the ralliers stamped and shouted as the door closed on the unfortunate one. Yells of "The cop beats his wife," rose above the roar...