Word: yell
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Excerpt: ". . . And here is this orator telling you that democracy is all through and that liberty is decadent. . . . When are you going to laugh, Americans? When is the great, hard, angry, shouting, razzberry laugh of the American people going to yell...
...When is the great, hard, angry, shouting razzberry laugh of the American people going to yell...
...Hoover mushmouthed his delivery; the clear, hot words of his finest address got lost (as always) deep in his bulldog chops. He stood there awkwardly, a near-great man whose fate has been to cast his mother-of-pearl words before mobs who, whether friendly or bitter, always yell "Louder!" No honest Republican denied to himself that the convention until now had laid the biggest egg since...
From the first night the galleries had shouted "We Want Willkie" over & over like a college yell. Delegates could hardly get into their rooms past the bundles of pro-Willkie telegrams from back home. Their suits came back from the hotel valet with Willkie buttons pinned on. Long-distance calls came from their wives, pastors, bankers, luncheon clubs, saying with one voice: "Willkie...
...Little Thomas E. Dewey, arriving late and flustered for press conferences, sometimes heard impatient reporters yell, "Bring in Willkie!" Dewey had the biggest piles of campaign literature, the satisfaction of having led the Gallup Poll for 15 months. He was left with both...