Word: loudly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...spurned. They found hides still on the free list and no provision for obstructing the free importation of vegetable oils from the Philippines. Where they had asked for an 8¢ duty on casein, the House Committee gave them a 2½¢ duty. The U. S. husbandman's representatives were loud with the U. S. husbandman's disgust...
Discrepancies might have been accepted without loud complaint had the House tariff-makers ceased their activities with Schedule VII (Agricultural Products). But tariff-making is the oldest U. S. political game next to taxation. Every U. S. producer claims special consideration, paints a terrifying picture of his ruin by cheap foreign competition. Under insist ent pressure, the Ways & Means Com mittee as usual broke, gave ground, widened tariff revision to include many a nonagricultural product. It was these other increases which chiefly distressed the farmer...
Eager newsmen pressed about the prison for detailed news of Convict Sinclair's daily doings. An order was issued barring them from the jail. Washington newspapers became indignant. In the U. S. Senate, Alabama's ever-loud Heflin denounced "this truckling to a vulgar millionaire." The Sinclair privacy became an editorial issue. The order was rescinded, the Press re-entered the jail...
...last week a sudden spatter of rain drove Rye Cove school children into their plain board study-rooms before the noon recess ended. They were just wriggling themselves quiet in their seats when, down the valley, came a loud howling noise. The sky blackened. A monster wind came twisting between the mountains. It swooped down, caught at the schoolhouse, ripped off the roof, scrunched the rest of it to bits, scattered things insanely. Then it went roaring away, up over the ridge...
...Loud, perennial squawks to the League of Nations about mistreatment of the German minority in Poland, have almost obscured the less-squawked-about fact that there is also a mistreated Polish minority in Germany...