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...Guernsey gaffers believe that the cry "Haro!" is an abbreviation of "Ha, Rollo!" an appeal to Rollo, first Duke of Normandy. More probably it comes from Anglo-Saxon licra or hara, an exclamation intended to attract attention. At Irish county fairs hucksters still shout "Aral Aral" when displaying their wares...
Stump-speakers to defend socialism when the weather gets warm are being trained by the Harvard Socialist Club. Men and women from colleges in Boston and the vicinity are being tutored in the style that will enable them to shout down all muttered objections at the meetings they intend to address later. The plan to outtalk the balky Boston police who hitherto have thwarted the cause of honest labor...
...Signor Grandi's positive demands, Prime Minister Andre Tardieu of France was not afraid to shout "No!" ten times more positively. He was also able to convince Italy that he had the silent backing of Britain and the U. S. Defeated in the first round, Signor Grandi withdrew his demand that ratios and total tonnages come first on the agenda, but saved the face of Signor Mussolini by a voluble oration to the effect that Italy "reserves" these points and will not join in any agreement reached by the conference until they have been settled...
Together they own the largest and what should be the most potent pair of newspapers in Great Britain. They can and they do shout every day not with a mere million tongues but with six millions. Viscount Rothermere's blatant Daily Mail has the largest circulation of any newspaper whatsoever.* Allied in policy, and partially interlocked with the Rothermere interests by stock holdings, are the scarcely less potent papers of Baron Beaverbrook, often called "bounder" by British aristocrats, born and christened William Maxwell Aitken in Canada...
...With sheepish smiles and shrugs policemen representing the majesty of the French Republic kept at a respectful distance. They would have been mobbed if they had interfered. "Vive la France!" roared the crowd. "La France royale et immortelle! Vive le Roi! Vive le Dauphin!" and then with a mighty shout, as a little man rushed from the station, "VIVE DAUDET! VIVE DAUDET...