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...arched, open-walled tabernacle. One by one they hurried up to kneel in straw and sawdust by a long bench-like altar. Rawboned, hot-eyed men lifted clasped hands high in prayer. Women wailed, waved their arms, chanted gibberish. Small bewildered children noisily imitated their elders. The din rose, night after night, week after week, while plain people nearby stirred crossly in their beds...
...when Minister of the Interior Frick announced the completion of Germany's new conscription law (see col. 1.). Then cried Premier Göring: "Der Führer has the floor!" Adolf Hitler almost jumped from his chair to the rostrum where he unfolded his speech amid a din of clapping and cheers. For exactly two hours and 15 minutes thereafter he talked...
Friends of the President were considerably relieved to learn that the gold-colored bells would not din a wistful message to presidential ears. Mr. Coolidge, however, was reported disconsolate that he was unable to grant the President's wish...
...partly filled with pebbles, a promise of six hours work each night at 40? per hr. "If there's anything the starlings hate," gloated Superintendent Lanham, "it's the rumpus and clatter of the cans. They'll flee for dear life." Setting up a frightful din, the workers rattled and poked. As predicted, the starlings fled-to the eaves and cornices of nearby buildings, where they resumed their own annoying chatter. Superintendent Lanham was not baffled. First windless night he planned to send out a squad of men armed with large, hydrogen-filled balloons on long strings...
...COLONEL LINDBERG ARRIVING ON DAMSTERDYK" This telegram, received in a Liverpool shipping office, caused clerks, sailors, housewives and steamship officials to drop their work, swarm over the docks, prepare a rousing welcome for Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh. In the midst of a great din the Dutch freighter Damsterdyk tied up. Down the gangplank, blinking behind heavy spectacles, marched Colonel Irving Augustus Isaac Lindberg, High Commissioner of Nicaragua, Collector-General of Customs. Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, whose biggest duty is to appease Nicaragua's foreign bondholders. Vastly disgruntled, the crowd drifted away...