Word: stentorian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Come fine weather, Harvard's lustiest lungs will gather on Widener's steps again to ripple the ivy on the library's wall with their stentorian basses. G. Wallace Woodworth '24 will conduct the Glee Club with the assistance of William F. Russell...
...terrible! . . ." There are the soothing phrases of Neville Chamberlain, returned from Munich; the hysterical scream of Hitler, punctuated by the thunder of his Storm Troopers' "Sieg Heil! Sieg Heil!"; the uninflected, almost casual voice of Joseph Stalin promising death to the invading Nazis, and the stentorian challenge of Churchill, rallying his little island against a continent...
There was little to do after that. On Sunday, at the closing session, Gailmor in stentorian tones intoned the platform text to the delegates. Several innocuous amendments were offered and voted upon. A faint glimmer of opposition and dissatisfaction, smoldering among some delegates, flickered on the floor...
...First "Colossal." Griffith brought a strange, yet significant, heritage to his work. His father was Colonel Jacob Wark ("Roaring Jake") Griffith, a Confederate cavalry officer given to florid readings of Shakespeare. Like him, young D. W. had a stentorian voice, a tough physical frame, and a character that mixed moral austerity with poetic sentiment. He absorbed the attitude of the post-bellum Southerner to the Nouhern carpetbagger and the problems of the new freed men. When his talents and his viewpoint merged in The Birth of a Nation, a story of the Civil War, the Reconstruction and the first...
...Goes Grain. Tall, aggressive John McDowell, Manitoba legislator-farmer who had campaigned for ending controls and reopening the Exchange, shouted down the rest with his stentorian "Ninety-five for May oats." (The ceiling had been 65? a bushel.) Across the pit a hopped-up trader with right fist up, knuckles outward, all fingers clenched (indicating no fractions) shrieked: "Sold!" A boy chalked the quotation on the board. In a few moments, barley opened at $1.25 (May delivery), up 32? from a 93? ceiling...