Word: strident
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When they were not having fun, the delegates to the convention were indulging in busy conclaves. Steelmen, druggists, Zionists and Rotarians, when they hold such sessions, are prone to be strident in praise of themselves, their ideals, the progress they have made and their importance to the well-being of the world at large. Not so advertising men. Since their business is that of horn-blowing and drumbeating, they prefer not to roll their own. R. H. Grant, vice president of Chevrolet Motor Car Co., accused them of doing so, asserting that "the advertising man" too often annoys the world...
Later, Bishop Luther Wilson got up to read the Episcopal address whose substance had been prepared by the Board of Bishops but whose clear and strident phraseology was in large part his own. In this, there was a reprimand that applied to Dr. Sloan and exemplified the admirable Methodist point of view on the evolution bugaboo: "If the preacher assumes to answer every adversary of Christianity he will make the place a battlefield instead of a sheepfold...
Also on ethical, but not religious, grounds is Judge Ben B. Lindsey's Companionate Marriage, published this autumn. He tries to phrase a solution whereby humans, bewildered in this present strident civilization, can make their practices agree with their professed mores...
...dramatic and an ability to make the movement of his figures so intense that it is almost impossible to realize that they are, actually, stationary. Like all other artists, he is an illustrator of life; like no other artist he has found the themes for his illustrations in the strident banalities of U.S. civilization. Perhaps the only important U. S. artist who never crossed the geographical boundary of his country, he advanced its esthetic frontiers by producing art, which, as well as being indigenous, is both comprehensive and comprehensible, original without being evasive, and humble without ever for a moment...
...buildings reached up to Manhattan skies out of the Fifth Avenue district. Nearly all are strident homes of commerce. But the most beautiful is the new Aeolian Hall dedicated to music. So recently decreed the Fifth Avenue Association, wherefore its president, Colonel Michael Friedsam, (also president of B. Altman & Co.) awarded the Aeolian Co. the annual gold medal in token of its building's pre-eminent beauty. Said the Colonel: "This splendid building is a Fifth Avenue-New York message of inspiration and good will to the country. Such structures . . . insure our country the commercial leadership of the world...