Word: roar
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Rheumatic old King Cotton let out a loud roar. Partly a roar of defiance, partly a roar of pain, it rose up out of the Peabody Hotel in Memphis, where the National Cotton Council was assembled in annual meeting...
...division's proud, rugged commander, tall, slender, 38-year-old Major General James ("Slim Jim") Gavin, marched out into the avenue. The 82nd's bayonet-tipped phalanxes moved out behind him, and the cold wind sent a contagious roar of applause rolling for miles through the great city...
There was much eloquent plainness, sincerity and humility in the speech. He did not thunder and roar; he heaped no scorn. When he criticized, he showed moderation. "I have indicated my opposition ... to the antilabor bills pending in Congress," was the way he put it. When he described how General Motors walked out on his fact-finding board, he said only: "You have seen how General Motors has refused to cooperate...
...with Bach's beautiful Brandenburg Concerto No. 2, and the flutist started the evening off in its continuing spirit by gurgling flatly through his first twenty-five bars. This was especially unfortunate as he was the only one of the four solo voices that could be heard over the roar of 34 violins and eight counter-basses...
...week's end the whole investigation seemed about to collapse in a roar of political ill temper. Chairman Alben W. Barkley, also out of patience with the Republican members, announced that he might quit too. So did Georgia's Democratic Senator Walter. George, who has seldom opened his mouth during the hearings...