Word: shoutedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...public that it is not necessary to pay eight dollars for a seat in order to attend an opera. For half that sum, or a quarter of it, one can share in a holiday that casts no dishonor upon a dinner coat, can offer flowers and shout "Bis!" and strut in the lobby between the acts with a fine air of having bought one's own cigaret. At the large-sized Century Theatre, Mr. Gallo's capable traveling company opened with Tosca. A new tenor, Franco Tafuro of Lima, was compelled to repeat Puccini's ringing lacrimosities...
...four hoofs into the air and, for an imperceptible second, hung suspended so, in the image of Pegasus, a steed thrown sunward- then curved heavily, fiercely down burying its gloss in the brown water of a tank to the noise of a splash, a drum stroke, a great shout. Said the showman: "Often agents of the Societies for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals have come to stop us, and many have left saying that in their opinion this is the most beautiful animal act they have ever witnessed...
Just as conservative observers, had expected, Tilden and Johnston faced each other in the finals. Just as they had expected, Johnston played superbly. His drives bit with the malice of soundless white bees. He took the first set, 6-4, and a huge crowd stood up to shout for him. In the second set came the knot of the match. Johnston led at 9-8 and 30-40. Tilden was serving. If Johnston had taken that point, it would have been extremely unlikely that Tilden could have closed up a two-set lead, and already it was quite clear that...
...pink traveling man, who had shut his eyes for a last 20 winks before his mid-afternoon train pulled into Atlanta, sat up with a start. A great shout had awakened him?a shout billowing from thousands of male throats like a sultry banner, striped with the thinner, brighter cries that issue from the female larynx; a shout that had cast, as it unfurled, its majestic shadow upon the smoking-room. The traveling man stepped to the basin and began furiously to wash his face...
...automobile surrounded by six motorcycles, sat the Chief of Police; behind this entourage a group of bandsmen in blue coats with fine shiny instruments at their lips were striking up Dixie. It was all as he had imagined it a thousand times. Those horns had blared, that mighty shout unfurled its cloudy splendors in his dreams a thousand times; he had always had a feeling that some day it would come...