Word: stentorian
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...well as over when the announcement came of Carpenter's record-breaking toss. The running events were long since over, and the crowd of 2000 which had assembled to watch the events within the stadium had started to dwindle away when Announcer Edward Morris called out in stentorian tones, "Event No. 18, the discus throw,--won by C. C. Carpenter, Harvard. Distance 152 feet, two and one-half inches...
...that his audience might, were it so inclined, betray his secret. His trust is as implicit as it is touch- ing. Suppose, for instance, that you, leaping up from your seat in the sixth row center, were to level an accusing finger at the dissolute brother and shout in stentorian indignation: "He it was, and not the poor but honest hero on whom he is trying to lay the blame, who took the missing papers from the lower drawer of the mahogany desk in the upper left hand corner of the stage just before the curtain fell...
...melodrama! A large audience was captured to the last row in the second balcony by the Irish brogue, the flow of Irish wit, the good Irish names, and the triumph of Irish ingenuity. So enthusiastic did it become that numerous suggestions were offered the actors from the floor, a stentorian and not over complimentary mention of the Black and Tans being the most popular of the opinions thus expressed. Everyone seemed to have his money's worth by the close of the second...
...gates of the great Senior County Fair swing open this evening at 9 o'clock, a scene of unparalleled splendour will burst upon the atrophied optics of the throng of ticket-holders. Sparkling fountains will leap from many a keg, and the air will quiver with the stentorian howls of sideshow barkers...
...hour of midnight strikes. The more illustrious and more sedate of the company steal quietly away to home and bed; but they are not missed. Songs are being roared out at the top of stentorian lungs. Most of the students are, of course, German; but there are enough from England, America, Switzerland, Egypt, yea and Japan, to give a cosmopolitan flavor to the gathering. "The Watch on the Rhine," "God Save the Queen," and "Hail Columbia" are all roared out together in amiable discord. Some student conceives the gay notion of beating time on the table with his beer...