Word: loudnesses
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...jury brought in its verdict a Fire Department band across the street played "Wabash Moon'' and big, blonde Mrs. Diamond fell to loud weeping. Comforted her gangster-husband: "It don't mean nothing, honey. We're gonna appeal...
...Selznick saga is a fantasy told in light signs over Broadway, a loud scandal whispered in file copies of Variety, a legend forgotten in the smoke that curled out of spittoons in the Claridge Hotel from cigarets that had gold tips and monograms. An epic and a joke, it has made Selznick the name of a dynasty in the weird peerage of the cinema industry. It helped give the industry its reputation. It concerns a Japanese valet who learned how to pickle herring, a girl who was born in a Pennsylvania coal town and killed herself in Paris, a gold...
Both French and German delegations took the same train to London. Public smiles were even broader. Swarthy Laval waved a newspaper over his head and laughed out loud to the delight of photographers. German Foreign Minister Curtius had something real to smile about. Word had just reached him that he was for the first time a grandfather. But gloomy was Scot MacDonald who opened the conference that night. Said he: "If we cannot find a solution to the present crisis it will be difficult to stay the flood before it has overwhelmed the whole of Central Europe, with consequences-social...
...telegram to the United Press in which he protested against its discussion of domestic politics in relation to such an important inter national problem, demanded a public apology to the country. No apology was forthcoming because, as the President later learned, the U. P. despatch had merely echoed a loud babble of political talk that was rising on all sides...
...President ought not to be held responsible. Now President Hoover had put reality into this defense by acting for "worldwide" relief. But because the President had enlisted Democratic aid to ratify his plan, G. O. Politicians at national headquarters leaned over backwards last week not to jubilate out loud. They were well aware that if they started partisan hurrahing now, they would drive Democratic votes in Congress away when they would be needed next December. Outside of Washington Republicans were not thus careful to stifle their delight. In New Jersey last week David Baird Jr., onetime Senator and now Republican...