Word: yells
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...their way to the Brighton market. Several hundred steers, direct from the fields, would be driven into the Square each day by a few herdsmen. There they would promptly start milling around to the danger of all citizens nearby. For the better part of an hour, their custodians would yell and crack whips in an attempt to straighten out the cavalcade and herd it on to the Brighton road...
...What did Hindenburg's nursery maid yell at him when he cried...
...minutes "Red" Grange made four touchdowns. The Michigan spectators felt sickish. More kickoffs. Touchdowns for this team, for that. Loud and long the cheers. Here and there someone on the Michigan stands grimaced. His stomach griped him. Pork is a heavy thing to eat, burdensome when one has to yell like thunder. Finally the game ended. Illinois 39; Michigan 14. The latter's supporters were sick. Some were to be sicker still...
...opera audience there was well pleased with "Rosalinde". Its chorused applause swelled to a persistent curtain call. "We want Handel! We want Handel!" The New York Times continues. "At first those versed in musical history took the yell as a joke but a glance at the enthusiastic faces of the claquers was convincing evidence that the composer was actually regarded as a contemporary musician...
...apostle of American literary independence, Mr. H. L. (never Henry Louis!) Mencken, is at it again. He joins battle this time with Hugh Walpole in an open letter in the December Bookman in defense of what the Englishman had described in the November issue as "a scream and a yell on your part because of the agonozing decadence of contemporary English literature...