Word: shouted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their semester's work the difficulty of obtaining grades and the impossibility of seeing corrected blue books are issues of at least passing interest. Some, whose concern is leavened by the proximity of probation or Dean's List, have been known to rear back on their hind legs and shout disapproval in no uncertain terms, audible even in University Hall...
...what is now Poland, scraped his living precariously in England as a traveling salesman, and toward the close of the Tsarist Regime acted as a fence in disposing of valuables obtained by Joseph Stalin and other terrorists. At evidence an opponent may produce, M. Litvinoff is prone to shout "Forged!" and in Geneva last week he was itching...
That was exactly what the Very Rev. Dr. Trivett had in mind. The hubbub of Chinese in his Cathedral was so loud that the Dean had to shout the Anglican service at the top of his voice to get it on cinema sound tracks distinctly. With Chinese mothers suckling their babes in the sacred aisles, with nimble Chinese climbing the Cathedral's pillars for a better view, and with Miss Butterfly Wu triumphant, white friends of the bridegroom and members of the diplomatic corps stayed away and shuddered...
With DuBose Heyward as his librettist, Composer Gershwin kept his work faithful to the play. The Negroes of Charleston's Catfish Row live in the same rickety tenements. They still quarrel and kill over their crap games, still shout their religion, their love and fear of ''Lawd Jesus." Porgy, the crippled beggar, appears driving his seedy goat. The simple love story is his. Bess belongs to the murderer Crown. According to the neighbors she is "a liquor-guzzlin' slut," a "Happy Dust" addict. Porgy gives her shelter, buys her a divorce although she never has been...
...freshmen heard President James Bryant Conant advise: "Even during your college career you will find groups of propagandists outside the University ready to use you for their own purposes; you will find them to right and to left. . . , There are plenty of people who are willing and anxious to shout, to march, and to wave flags and banners. I do not feel that this type needs reinforcement from the student body...