Word: strident
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...same day that the city passed an ordinance to put a stop to "horse racing and careless shooting on Chicago's principal streets," But last week a commission composed of President Hoover's Secretary of Agriculture. Secretary of Commerce and Attorney General, tried to throttle the strident voices of the Pit by ordering it to suspend all trading in grain futures for 60 days from Aug. 7. Basis of the order was Farmers National Grain Corp.'s charge that it was illegally denied clearing privileges...
...strident Californian voice of Senator Hiram Johnson rolled out imperiously across the well-filled Senate chamber. In his hand he held a speech, too important to be delivered from memory. His white crest quivered with indignation and behind his spectacles his blue eyes gleamed resentfully. He was about to vent the full measure of his political bitterness, the full force of his distrust as as isolationist, and the full brilliance of disgruntled hindsight, upon the gentlemen who had conducted the country's international finance for the past decade. His speech summarized his conclusions on the Finance Committee...
...within the city, had been taken down. Under cover of the bombardment, Japanese blue-jackets landed five miles outside the city and engaged in sporadic hostilities with detachments of the Chinese garrison. Meanwhile, the Drum watchtower, which has warned Nanking citizens of danger since the Ming dynasty, sounded its strident alarm and refugees from Shanghai piled into British steamers, anxious to get back as quickly as they could. Also at Nanking was the U. S. destroyer Simpson. As the first shells screamed over the city the Simpson hustled out of the way. At Shanghai martial law was declared...
...game is surely a good example. For one reason, due to the depression and other causes, a goodly number of the Harvard football watchers were forced to spend last Saturday afternoon not in the cool and windy Stadium, but in the doorway of some radio shop listening to the strident voices of announcern of the West Point game. There is no doubt that the voices in their natural state caused silvery echoes to gift through the confines of the announcerial box. Amplified, refrequenced, hoarsed, and allowed to join the Freshmen in making the Yard noisy, the effect in a quite...
...year he had sharing his office two raucous instructors. They whistled incessantly, "and always the same tunes, and always off the key. Remember that - always off the key. It is important." To order them to be silent was impossible for kindly Professor Shaw. Besides, their reaction might be more strident whistling. He thought of a ruse. For the university daily he wrote an article shaming whistlers in general. But the paper did not print it. Last week some New York University students who work as "campus" correspondents for the local dailies were be wailing the scantiness of university news. Professor...