Word: strident
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week the East's five most potent railmen and their aides sat down around a big conference table in Manhattan's Pennsylvania Station. They were William Wallace Atterbury, strident and aggressive president of Pennsylvania R. R.; Patrick Edward ("Pull Eighty Cars") Crowley, diffident and watchful president of New York Central R. R.; Daniel Willard, precise and conciliatory president of Baltimore & Ohio; and the Brothers Van Sweringen, urbane and alert owners of Chesapeake & Ohio-Nickel Plate. Luncheon was served them in their chairs. Nine hours later they arose together after concluding an agreement so momentous they...
...already in the making, though ten months must elapse before it comes into legislative being. Primaries to nominate candidates for the November elections have commenced, will continue until mid-September. In many a State last week could be seen the hustle and bustle of campaigning, could be heard the strident cry of the stumpster pleading for votes. Of prime importance to President Hoover were these makings of the new Congress. The voting would be the first widespread register of public opinion on his administration. Last week two primaries were held...
...Light Blue crew passed along the same way a few minutes later, apparently serene in the knowledge that Cambridge was a 3 to 1 favorite. As they came back there was another polite and well bred silence not broken by the strident voices of any old grads of the Light Blue...
...Asch has crammed a lot into this staccato, cinematic account-none the less a faithful picture for being jumbled, strident, cacophonous, blaring. Pay Day has this advantage over the newsreel any Manhattanite, any urbanite, performs in every day; it has been edited, cut, captioned by an author-cinemartist. The result is a good movie...