Word: stentorian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Raus mit dem Schieber!" bawled stentorian voices. "Out with the slippery guy!" Mayor Boess blanched even paler. Frau Boess, defiantly wearing her notorious fur coat, squeezed his elbow to hearten him. First up the gangplank to greet them came Berlin's acting Mayor, Bürgermeister Scholtz with a fat briefcase full of documents of the latest evidence against the Sklarek brothers and their city clothing contracts. Glumly he presented it to his superior, then ducked away to speed back to Berlin by airplane...
...been investigating U. S. politics by sober scientific methods. Last week he published a voluminous report,* in which he confirmed much unscientific observation. He observed that the "ablest minds of the community" refused to become embroiled in politics, that competent public servants were all too often displaced by Stentorian, spread-eagle politicians...
...tumult and the shouting of the political campaign grows ever shriller and more mordant, Lampy seizes the opportunity to insinuate that these demi-gods who battle amid the rumblings of reform and the crash of platforms are but mortals after all. While the stentorian tones of our fire-eating friends from below the Mason and Dixon Line-and even from nearer home than that-clamor for just retribution to be exacted by a woefully wronged people, Lampy has the temerity to suggest that, "Another thing that Al could do that Moses Couldn't was look good in a brown derby...
...storm centre of Flood Control last week, was in the House Committee room where the irresistible legislative urge was encountering the immovable Coolidge ultimatum (see p. 8). On the floor of the House, pending the Bill's actual reading, the debate was general. It became more general when stentorian Mr. Schafer of Wisconsin arose and pointing his large finger at a puffy, untidy figure in one of the back seats, demanded to know what he was doing there...
Menelaos shakes hands with his subjects and, by stentorian snoring and an overemphasized case of hay-fever, blows his wife away. Once gone, she realizes that a statue is not an idol unless it has clay feet; and that men are always either snoring or boring. This cultural advance is accomplished with a great pounding of subtitles, and a cast whose gait is not always, but usually, smooth and rapid. Among its members are Lewis Stone as Menelaos and Ricardo Cortez as a sultry but persuasive Paris. Now We're in the Air. Wallace Berry and Raymond Hatton have...