Word: stridently
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Ernest Hemingway expounded the mystique of bullfighting in Death in the Afternoon. It was a best-seller too, but the Green Hills of Africa, in which Hemingway expounded the mystique of big-game hunting, showed a falling off. The depression was on; strident voices were asking when Ernest Hemingway was going to become socially conscious. He kept on boxing, riding, hunting, fishing...
...Women, foreseen by the mad fancy of James Thurber, comes to pass, Gertrude Atherton will be the Stonewall Jackson of the rebel females. The House of Lee, a tale of a girl of 22, her mother of 40, her grandmother of 60, is not so noteworthy because of its strident feminism as because of its rampant, 82-year-old author...
Prime Minister Robert Gordon Menzies was overcome by emotion as he told the Australian Parliament the story. He paused at one point and covered his face with his hands. Politically, Mr. Menzies' loss of three senior Ministers from his Cabinet laid him wide open to strident Labor demands that the Australian general election, which the Government has tried to postpone on the plea of war emergency, be held in 1940 as it normally would be under the Constitution...
noise, and cold. penetrating. band blares out, brassy noise. death rattling roll of drums. noise, a strident scream. angry hissing. belches of cotton smoke ... the train grates...