Word: declaimed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ponderous mockery Senator Norris of Nebraska picked up a yellow woolen garment from the tariff exhibit called "Grundy's store" and commenced to declaim...
...Chipps, the jurors heard Defense Lawyer Dayton Moses declaim: "Thank God, in Texas you don't have to wait until you are shot down to protect your own life. Dr. Norris is a man of courage. He had the right to kill Chipps the minute he came into his office door, but he did not. He waited until Chipps came back, rushed at him to carry out the promise he [Chipps] had made to Mayor H. C. Meacham [of Fort Worth, who was not permitted to testify in this trial] to stop Norris or kill him. Poor Chipps...
Popular magazines have of late contained a great deal of ballyhooing as to the uselessness of the college degree. More than one successful business man, graduates of the "college of hard knocks" have come out in print to declaim against the college graduate's overweening sense of his own abilities, extravagant habits, and inability to buckle down to work. An age which measures success in financial returns has come to regard four years at college as so much time wasted...
Curious idlers who wondered why they had tagged along, heard him declaim: "This is one of the greatest days in American history. . . . The New Orleans steamboats will be whistling in Chicago before very long. . . . It's a fine Christmas present for old Chicago...
...President, have been astounded at this turn of affairs, and have In a turn at denouncing the alumnus to his baleful influence. "It is the inmates who make all the trouble; They are to blame for such standards in the American college. Thus the professor and the college President declaim, the which standing cap in hand in various appeal to the alumni for endowment Such hypocrisy is treated by the as it deserves...