Word: roarin
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...Roarin' Tigers...
Next day sleek "Roarin' Bob" Reynolds of North Carolina took the floor, held forth for two and a half hours of teary, sob-voiced argument for isolation. Said Senator Reynolds: Hitler is no more of a menace to the U. S. than Napoleon was in 1808. He insisted that the bill had nothing to do with the defense of the U. S., proposed sarcastically that its title should be changed to: "A Bill for the Defense of the British Empire at the Expense of the Lives of American Men and at the Expense of the American Taxpayer...
...leaving Tucson to be overrun by Mexican raiders and Apache scalping parties. But beauteous, powerful, 20-year-old Phoebe had Vision. "Right where ye stand," she told a dubious group of fellow Tucsonians, "right where this filthy, crumblin', ornery corner of hell is reelin' 'n' roarin' 'n' robbin' 'n' killin', there'll be a city-and wimmin 'n' homes 'n' streets 'n' churches...
...English language owes a debt of incalculable size to Buncombe County, N. C. for a fine eight-letter noun that aptly identifies certain types of insincerity. The U. S. Senate owes a debt of questionable size to the same county for Senator Robert Rice (''Roarin' Bob") Reynolds. Last week Washington newshawks had fun with an incident that concerned Bob Reynolds and somehow seemed to recall the name of the county of his birth...
...Miss Easter, if you don't stop roarin' an' bawlin' an' tearin' on the red raw minute yell be gettin' tally-whack an' tandam where ye'll not like it." So admonished by her nurse, little Easter, the story's heroine, manages to mind her P's & Q's for a minute, but not for more. There are her cousins Evelyn and Basil to get into mischief with, and Patsy the scullery boy. Patsy breeds ferrets in an overstuffed armchair, knows the countryside and its sports like...