Word: shoutingly
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...belting. There's hard gospel," a heavily syncopated uptempo mode that pounds along like a steam locomotive. There's "sweet gospel " the gentler, lilting expression that finds its balm in folk dirges such as Steal Away to Jesus or Go Down Moses. Then there's "hallelujah shout," which can set ginmill customers or Southern Baptist congregations to clapping and chanting at the first blaring note...
Klan to Cattle Dips. That course has had its pitfalls. In its preoccupation with political judgments, the News stands in some danger of being a newspaper whose strength lies mostly in its shout. Its last major crusade came in 1924, when it helped chase the Ku Klux Klan out of Texas, although Dealey is still fond of pointing out that the News was the first Southern newspaper to call venereal diseases by their right names and the first paper in Texas to crusade for arsenical cattle dips. The News has only two staffers outside of Texas: Washington Correspondents Robert...
...success drops back to lend the genius a helping hand-and offers, for the sake of simplicity, to go fifty-fifty for life-it looks an act of unparalleled generosity. It never occurs to the genius that he is entitled to more than 50% of himself. Don't shout at him or utter threats or tell him who's boss; you want your genius happy. The genius has the imagination to make himself your slave. His fears are far greater than anything you can instill into...
...podium, the short, dignified man with the spiky beard would kick, lunge, shout and. in moments of intense excitement, occasionally throw his baton...
...week, shimmying atop her table at the Municipal Theater, she let her husband-a small man in a large tuxedo-have it square in the face with a squirt of ether from a spray bomb. "I went to another party dressed as a Roman girl," she explained in a shout above the din, "but it's hard to do bumps in a toga." From another table top near by, a handsome young matron in a white Carmen Miranda outfit went right on wiggling her bare midriff as she confided that she had left her three children with her husband...