Word: strident
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Volume. For three months the towns & cities of the U. S. have heard with rising pleasure the raucous music of the whistle. It is national recovery at an unprecedented pace, a strident prelude to National Recovery by Executive Command (see p. 12.). The percussions have been abundantly recorded in the cool abstractions that are indexes. Last week electric power production soared (for the sixth consecutive time), to 91.7% of normal. Steel production, most potent barometer of basic industrial activity, surged up another 3% to 47% of capacity, more than three times the rate last March. Bank clearings went...
...same monotonous drone. There is roast beef in all the Houses for breakfast and for lunch and for dinner, and for a demitasse. There is a very poor movie in all the theatres in town; there is very poor rhum in every bottle in Cambridge; there is a most strident and complaining voice through every fire door in the college. There is the same bland look of innocence on every Freshman's face and the same suave cynicism on every Sophomore's. The bell in Sever rings louder and more frequently. There is no discharge...
...dime." Corks popped in a drunken finale. But Night Club had verve, spontaneity, fresh harmonic and rhythmic effects missing from the run of ambitious jazz, which nowadays seems all dressed up with no place to go. Two parts at least-the melody given to the lovers and the strident "Dance on a Dime"-should make song hits as rich as Johnny Green's "Body & Soul," which Torchsinger Libby Holman made famous...
...rise to a question of constitutional privilege." One afternoon last week Representative Louis Thomas McFadden, rambunctious Pennsylvania Republican, planted himself in the House well, squared his stocky shoulders, spoke these words. Behind him on the rostrum slouched Speaker Garner. Before him several hunched members drowsed through routine legislation. The strident McFadden voice continued: "On my own responsibility as a member of the House of Representatives, I impeach Herbert Hoover, President of the United States, for high crimes and misdemeanors and offer the following resolution. . . ." The House, shocked as if by electricity, sat bolt upright. For 20 seconds there...
...Norris, insurgent Republican, dabbed paint on his home while awaiting a visit from Governor Roosevelt in whose behalf he will later campaign from Ohio to California. In New Orleans curly-headed, loose-jawed, incredible Senator Huey Pierce ("Kingfish") Long champed impatiently to take to the hustings and raise his strident voice...