Word: loudnesses
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...playing in a local nickelodeon for $12 a week. Scarcely tall enough to see the screen over the battered upright piano, she rattled off loud, hectic accompaniments for villains, soft, trembling tunes for injured heroines. Occasionally from her place in the pit she would sing a song or two. Her singing got her a $50-a-week job at Mellone's Restaurant in New Haven...
...bring back to work some of the 250,000 workers laid off in the past year, and President William Green promised the movement the Federation's "full political & economic strength" (TIME, Oct. 19). Any suggestions of wage cuts heretofore have been answered by the railroad unions with a loud and emphatic...
Before he left Bombay for London (TIME, Aug. 24), St. Gandhi protested loud and long that he expected nothing whatever to come of the Indian Round Table Conference. Last week while the conference, hopelessly hung up on the problem of Hindu-Moslem representation, still struggled on, he quietly booked passage to sail back to India the middle of November...
...candidate for tick inspector. But already he had learned that sweeping promises sweep up votes. Nineteen years later Huey Pierce Long ran for Governor of Louisiana, made sweeping promises, was elected. Elected with him was his good political friend, Paul N. Cyr, a dentist, who became lieutenant governor. Loud, red-headed Governor Long soon began to fulfill his campaign promises, to turn Louisiana topsy-turvy. Lieutenant Governor Cyr broke with him, became his bitter foe. When Governor Long ran for the U. S. Senate last year he made another promise, aimed to reassure Louisiana voters, to discomfort Cyr, whom...
...forsake Shakespeare and Henry Irving (who, Shaw thought, was wasting her talents) and cast in her lot with a really good playwright, one George Bernard Shaw. But she stuck to Irving about as long as he needed her. Shaw admired her loyalty, never ceased to upbraid her wrongheadedness. Loud in his Brobdingnagian denunciations of Henry Irving, Shaw did not resent the fact that Ellen Terry had "many enduring friendships, some transient fancies, and five domestic partnerships of which two were not legalized...