Word: stentorian
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...most spontaneous and genuine laughter of the evening, he is forced to change constantly from one character to the other. How he does it, we do not know. We are certain however, that when he appeared in the old lodge waving his sword and blasphem lng Wellington in stentorian tones and later when he misdirected the villain into a ten-mile hike in the woods looking for the girl who was not his wife, he provided the high spots of the evening...
...morning following the day of his arrival, Ambassador Krassin paid his respects to Premier Herriot. One hour later, the latter's stentorian tones were heard in the Chamber of Deputies : "The Government is well aware of its duty and will take action against these foreign Communists...
...Phillips Brooks House has selected this season of the year as an opportune time to carry on its drive for funds. When one has been pestered to the point of madness by every variety of agent, including Max Keezer and Lee the Laundryman, the easiest answer is a stentorian and all-embracing "No!" In the case of the Brooks House canvasser, this refusal is not justified. The organization carries on a multitude of extremely worthwhile enterprises, and must depend for its support solely on what it can beg from case-hardened undergraduates. Its success in any given year...
...page took the paper and transferred it to the clerk who began to read, with the usual stentorian monotony...
...with the stentorian cry with which the original T. R. might have greeted such a request, but in a letter analyzing one by one the points made, the young Colonel, who signed himself "Acting Secretary of the Navy," made answer...