Word: roar
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...planes picked out by searchlights swarmed over the city, while the crowds thinned and spectators in evening clothes stood along the curbs, the march went on. Finally, at 2:40 a. m. when the band music had become as much a part of the city voice as the roar of elevated trains, the last Legionnaires turned off the Avenue and the longest parade in U. S. history was over, 17¾ hours after it had begun...
...guests. He told a class of graduating nurses what had happened when he visited a similar institution at Ogdensburg, N. Y. An old man mowing the lawn, said the President, "took off his hat very politely. After I had passed, I heard the family, who were looking back, roar with laughter. I turned and there was the old gent thumbing his nose at me." While the nurses chuckled, the President gave a demonstration of the gesture...
Newark in traffic volume leads not only the U. S. but the world. This year close to 300,000 passengers, over 4,000,000 Ib. of mail and over 2,500,000 Ib. of express will be handled. One hundred and twenty planes a day roar off Newark's runways compared with less than 100 out of Berlin, London or Paris. But Newark is 14 miles and 40 minutes from the centre of Manhattan, suffers the resentful opposition of every loyal flying New Yorker...
...Orator Toledano hurled imprecations at the enemies of labor. The Mexicanos were enthusiastic, but not enough to suit Toledano. Dramatically pausing, the fiery-eyed labor leader leaned forward on the rostrum to grip his listeners once more. He was going to tell them something. The Government of Mexico, his roar rose to crescendo, faces danger, immediate danger, danger of a Fascist plot-a plot in which high officials of the Government are involved...
...Robert Matthews arrived to visit Mr. & Mrs. Arthur L. Michel. With them they brought their pet lion, King Tuffy. During business hours King Tuffy walks a tightrope. Mr. Matthews stowed King Tuffy in the back yard, but early one morning Tuffy became disquieted and started to roar. Disquieted neighbors, too, started to roar-among them Alderman Hugo Pape. Rhetorically asked he: "What is this, Africa?" Alderman Pape summoned the police, who inspected Tuffy, but decided they had no jurisdiction over lions...