Word: stridently
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shortest of steps, but it was up, and for Louis it was decisive: near by were the Fisk School, where he learned to read & write, and honky-tonks like Sicilian Henry Matranga's place and thickly packed Funky Butt Hall, where both the syncopation and the dancing were strident and brassy...
...literally bathed in baleful crimson light. But the thing had pace and a certain crude excitement, and Richard Whorf's usurper, limping of foot and swift of brain, was enjoyably malign. There was nothing subtle about any of it, and toward the end there was much that was strident; but if never anything more, it was a pretty good show...
...Evjue became managing editor of the Journal at 29. In 1917, when the paper attacked the late great Senator Robert M. LaFollette for his pacifism, Evjue quit to found the Times. (He later edited LaFollette's Progressive on the side.) The Times has been expressing Evjue's strident personality ever since. From the start, Evjue faced a financial struggle that made him a penny-pinching editor. His circulation is now the state's largest, outside of Milwaukee, but even so, the Times netted only $45,925 in 1947. (The Journal's earnings: $38,279.) Evjue decides...
...coverage marked the TV debut of Walter Winchell and Drew Pearson. Both kept their noses in their scripts and their balding heads under hats. Winchell displayed his usual talent for saying nothing at all with the strident urgency of Gabriel trumpeting Judgment Day. Pearson repaired to a phone from time to time and returned to dispense "inside" dope which was not particularly informative, but had a lively jangle. The real ABC sparkplug-and TV's top election reporter -was white-haired Elmer Davis, who spoke extemporaneously, generally made sense and radiated authority...
...able to shut its top drawer (as more settled towns have, or pretend to have); socialites, cafe socialites, climbers and hangers-on buzz across the city's night life like a queenless swarm. But the hard fact was that the debut was becoming an anachronism. In a less strident day, when children were seen and not heard, a debut was at least as significant as the unveiling of a civic monument. If it uncovered nothing the audience had not seen before, it was at least official and marked the removal of the protective scaffolding. But by the time...