Word: roaringly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When popular Conductor Arthur Fiedler marched to the gladioli-banked podium three days after Koussevitzky's farewell, a hallful of Pops fans were there to give him a roar of welcome...
Gloomy Old Dev. In Dublin this week, before the rebuilt post-office building on O'Connell Street, Pearse's challenge was read once again. It was answered once again by the roar of cannon. But this time the guns were firing orderly salutes. Ireland was formally a Republic. By the External Relations Act (passed last December and proclaimed this week) it had severed its last direct tie with the British crown. For the first time since Pope Adrian IV, 795 years ago, gave the island to England's King Henry II, Ireland was independent...
...Cavanaghs & Co. were persuaded to load themselves (and 32 crack ponies) on airplanes for the U.S. When the Argentines took the field at Los Angeles last week, against a hand-picked U.S. team, they learned that it was to be a championship match-and they let out a roar heard halfway to Buenos Aires. They had left flamboyant, red-headed Roberto, a nine-goal player,* at home. They played the match under protest...
Ninety-one years have passed, but "whiggedie whellow" is as unruly and outrageous as ever, never missing a chance to roar, laugh and tear the newspaper apart. In three books just published, U.S. readers will have a grand chance to follow G.B.S. through those nine decades...
...Black & Tans. The free-for-alls of O'Casey's Volume IV are set in the years when Eire was finally obtaining her independence. Black & Tans roar through Dublin in armored cars, Irish rebels fight them off shoulder to shoulder-and, after defeating them, turn their ferocity against one another. The air is full of flying shillelaghs, ecclesiastical croziers, broken staves of office, and splintering scepters. But olive branches are missing from the scene and O'Casey, parodying Yeats, chants sarcastically...