Word: roared
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...slow voice, a monster by itself, was amplified mechanically into a sonorous roar. A third of the grandstand seats were as yet unfilled. The shuffle of thousands of feet and the drone of thousands of excited conversations diminished slightly but by no means ceased. The voice paused a moment, and then intoned...
...troubles were forgotten when the chance came to show flashes of Lebedew's stock exchange interspersed with glimpses of soldiers in a muddy trench. The hero of the play was really that grotesque animal, the Russian mob: this was frequently seen running about, giving its loud roar. The happy ending of The End of St. Petersburg occurred when the Soviet rule became established...
...Elliott's house is in a place called Dunton, a drab quarter of the Borough of Queens, N. Y. One night last week, an hour past midnight, a bulky object lying on the porch of the Elliott house detonated with a roar of which the magnitude befitted the object of its protest. This object was not Robert G. Elliott or his wife and two children, all in bed upstairs. It was society...
Pitcher, Butch Burnham: Catcher Roar of the Crowd Brigham: first base, Powell: second base, Nicholas: short stop, Keeu; third base, Lee: right field, Who Stole the People's Money Rockenberg; center field, Captain Tough Customer Stevens; left field, Cy and I Confess Sloane: Substitutes, Graves, Boston, Bean, Broad, Parsons: water boy and bad boy mascot, chairman of the Tiger, Price Day. Daily Princetonian
...Corinth, in Greece. As the first shocks rumbled at Corinth, a telegraph operator frantically clicked off the words: "Help! Help! All is lost!" Over, and over he repeated the frenzied message. Then the earth reeled, the telegraph office collapsed, crushing the operator, and, with a universal cataclysmic roar, virtually every building in Corinth tumbled to the ground...