Word: shouted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Best defense of his character that George Berry could think of at the moment was to shout down: "I was once within three votes of being nominated Vice President...
...enthusiastic acceptance just because somebody has had a big thrill thinking them out. It must appear on reflection, however, that some people possess powers of thought denied to others, that some minds are incapable of formulating rational ideas as distinguished from mere "emoting," and that often those who shout loudest about how Harvard fails to pay them any attention, are not, on the basis of what they have to say, worthy of being heard. For there is a distinction between sound intellectual operation, which takes discipline, and words full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. For the latter...
...stock characters and stock works, he more often uses bright, biting satire. The audience laughs out loud when the spoiled son and daughter of a steelmaster try to throw off their ill-natured boredom with a tinny song about spooning and crooning, when a college president and his professors shout mealy-mouthed patriotic jingo. There is good, contemptuous laughter behind The Cradle Witt Rock and that laughter gives the play its vigor...
...east, the young Armenian climbed the scaffold, calmly told his grim-faced audience that "an insult motivated my crime." In an ironic gesture he willed the revolver he used to the U. S. Congress. Then, with hands strapped, hood over his eyes, he pierced the chill silence with a shout, "A bas Washington!" (Down with Washington!). The trap was sprung and his body plumped down through the opening, jerked to a sudden stop as the rope became taut...
...Supreme Court, made up to look like nine copies of Chief Justice Hughes, emerges from the park shrubbery to shout "No" at the President, pulls a final coup by declaring everything but itself unconstitutional...