Word: strident
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...output of our foundries at this moment is too aggressive, too strident, to be overlooked with a pitying smile. These bronze rowdies whoop and vociferate on all sides. I recently heard a witty artist friend size up the situation in this wise: 'After the Civil War they did the worst they knew how; today we have become more skillful and we are able to do much worse...
...diplomats well supplied with offers to make peace by selling or bartering parts of the empire, emitting at the same time declarations to the world press that he will part with "not an inch" of Ethiopian soil. If these Imperial activities resemble a Semitic tradesman's strident, righteous protestations and simultaneous readiness to compromise, they are not the Man of the Year's fault but aspects of his God-given character...
...game of tennis, rode horseback. Vivacious, chic, unmarried, she has more recently won the admiration of the staff of the New York Times, for which she writes a competent by-line account of women's sports. Only one peculiarity mars her makeup: when disconcerted, she always emits a strident screech, flabbergasts her escorts...
...Harvard Advocate has had many changes of format in the years since 1866, yet it holds a familiar place in the undergraduate and the outside world. Although sometimes companioned for strident intervals, it is now the most important published outlet for Harvard literary ambitions and opinions...
...They tried to bluff us today," cried the strident "Mitch" Hepburn. "And they found out we can't be bluffed. The Province of Ontario is too big to be bluffed. . . . We are going through with this business-all the way through with...