Word: stridently
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fosdick heard from another of his chronically vehement critics last week-Dr. Clarence E. N. Macartney of Philadelphia, one-time (1924-25) moderator of the Presbyterian Church, all time a Fundamentalist, although a less strident one than Dr. Straton. Dr. Macartney announced that he was resigning his pastorate of Arch Street Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia, to become pastor of First Presbyterian Church, Pittsburgh. Concerning Protestant confessional he said: "Dr. Fosdick, as usual, is about five centuries behind the times...
...amiable unmorality is all this Tom-talk of moral credit. How strange that two products of like environments should see things so differently in retrospect. How odd that Huck the outcast should write with such contentment while Tom the respected citizen has loathing in his memory and joy, strident because vicarious, only in perfections yet to be. Both the books are written for middle-aging people. Who shall say which is wiser...
Yale, Harvard and Princeton are bound together not so much by tradition or custom as by their common opportunity to aid the development of education. At times strident voices of a thoughtless minority cause commotion, but if the Big Three are bound by a mutuality of aim and a dedication to American education, their bonds of friendship will be unbreakable and abiding
...maze of golden apples and silver trees, stripped a little of its diabolism, but gloriously exotic withal. There was the scherzo from Mendelssohn's A Midsummer Night's Dream with its solo for Flutist Yeschke, new this season, and the dances from Borodin's Prince Igor, strident, barbarous, voluptuous...
Last fortnight Times readers were shocked. A complete reversal of policy was implicit in a small paragraph, conspicuously "boxed" (ruled off), which began appearing daily, signed-Oh, odor of the Follies, chewing-gum and the strident New York World!-by Funnyman Will Rogers, the prairie pantaloon, purveyor of bathos to Demos...