Word: rowdiest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...front of their cribs as did those of oldtime Galena Street, its cuisine still ranged from fried bear steak to Cornish pastries, its inhabitants still quarreled in some 30 different languages and dialects. In war as in peace, Butte was still a mining camp, still one of the rowdiest towns in the U.S., still a U.S. legend out of which new legends would grow...
...Theater managers found audiences the rowdiest in their memory: they howled, hissed and booed at pictures, demanded Westerns, carved their initials on seats, sometimes even fired buckshot at the screen. War workers brought alarm clocks, set them to go off when they had to leave for work...
Free speech sometimes turns into sheer loudmouthing. Last week Blue Network President Mark Woods clamped down on two of his rowdiest commentators, Walter Winchell and Drew Pearson, told them to stop making derogatory or insulting remarks about public officials, especially members of Congress. When Blue news editors blue-penciled some of his "controversial" items, Winchell yelled: "My fangs have been removed...
...This rowdiest of stockholders' meetings, rowdier than any big corporation had even in mid-Depression, caught giant Electric Bond & Share Co. by surprise last week. There was no particular reason for it except that the company has had trouble aplenty-its affiliate's plants in Shanghai have been seized by the enemy; its earnings have dropped from 1930's $42,000,000 to this year's $6,000,000; SEC threatens to make it part with some of its U.S. operating companies...