Word: roared
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...specialty is the study of noise, to tell its inhabitants the worst about their city streets and subways. He finds that the streets of New York are less noisy than those of Chicago, whether because silent powder is not used in Chicago guns he does not say; but the roar of the New York subways, equal to that of an airplane motor in the protected ears of an aviator, exposes New Yorkers to a greater volume of should than that in any other city. As to Boston, he says that the purpose of his presence in that place became known...
...Century of Revolution, which is not at all like either herself or her later writings, and in which nobody who reads her novels takes more than a studious interest. The Ladies of Lyndon, her first fiction, made small stir; but with The Constant Nymph there was a great roar of approval from critics and gentle readers. At that time Author Kennedy was not long out of Somerville College, Oxford, where she sang in Sir Hugh Allen's famed Oxford Bach Choir. Author Kennedy dislikes games & most violent exercise, likes swimming, dancing (hornpipes or foxtrots), mountain climbing. Her husband...
...august;" he wore, not pantaloons, but a baggy tailcoat; he could make a thousand people roar with laughter by saying nothing, merely looking at his left foot...
When the American Iron & Steel Institute met in Manhattan last week there was no Judge Gary to conclude his ritual lecture by saying: "Gentlemen, the meeting is now in your hands. Whom do you want to hear from?" The answer was always the roar: "Charlie!" The judge and all others present knew that the "Charlie" was for Charles Michael Schwab, Chairman of the Board of the Bethlehem Steel Corp. But Judge Gary was dead two months (TIME, Aug. 22). He could not prime the iron & steel men's cheers for "Charlie." There was no need. In Judge Gary...
Grimy pressmen will look up from their work in printing plants across the country in these next three months to see a neatly dressed stranger peering at them. If they can hear his comments above the thrash & roar of pressroom operation, they will be conscious of a precise English accent...