Word: shouting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...orchestra and new conductor made their opening bow to Manhattan audiences. The new orchestra was notable for its youth (85% of its players are under 25) and for its five women instrumentalists. A packed house attended the opening, found the youthful orchestra well-stocked, found Conductor Stiedry something to shout about...
...Sudeten Germans, his broadcast speech signaled the Sudeten uprising. Touted as an instrument of international harmony, radio has a bad record as a peace maker. It was no bar to war in Spain, war in China. In every major crisis since the World War, radio has shouted provocative insults, challenges. All last week Berlin's official broadcasting voice screamed against "the Czech mass murderers," bombarded the rest of the world with atrocity stories, invented a radio language in which the Czech army was "the Hussite mob" or the "Red Horde," the Czech Republic a soviet, Czech mobilization "Moscow...
...Chancellor Adolf Hitler was the chief who last week forced this decision by crude, primitive demands and threats made to Neville Chamberlain behind the soundproof walls of the Führer's study at Berchtesgaden. Premier Benito Mussolini was the unashamed and blatant chief who was first to shout openly in a speech at Trieste that there was no alternative to War except the immediate dismemberment of Czechoslovakia...
...Walk by last week was being played to a frazzle on the radio, whistled to death in the streets, performed every fourth dance in London hotels and clubs. The dance-an easy, arm-in-arm walk, mock-Cockney fashion, with simple turns, knee-slappings and, at the end, a shout of "Hey!" or "Oi!" -had reached the continent, had penetrated even to Scotland. And last week, Arthur Murray, Manhattan dance teacher, returned from Europe with the Lambeth Walk at his toe-tips, vowing to launch it as a U. S. diversion. Said he: "It will undoubtedly be better than...
...Loeser had walked into the London Stock Exchange, which brooks no intrusion. The Exchange was once limited to 1400 members. Now, whenever a stranger is seen on the floor, members shout "1401," throw him out. Mr. Loeser was lucky not to have been "debagged" (pants taken off). Afterwards, he said somewhat sourly: "The experience was funny...