Word: loudnesses
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...steps of Manila's Legislative Building to receive ovations, watch the fun. Beside him stood Nevada's Senator Key Pittman, many a Filipino official. For two hours Senator Hawes watched 50,000 natives file by-school children, college students, labor unionists, club women, civic workers, politicians. Loud and long were the cheers for Senator Hawes. Said he afterwards: "That turnout convinced me the Filipinos want independence. If anyone doesn't want it, he must be in hiding...
...drill crew" which is kept constantly moving around and around the yard, stopping only twice a day for bread and water. At Monroe, investigators found U. S. prisoners severely punished for "not standing at count . . . speaking in dining room . . . laughing in the cell block . . . making loud popping noises with the mouth." One child had died in his punishment cell...
Four days after the Hoover plan had gone forth, Secretary of State Stimson marched happily into the President's office to announce that Britain and Italy had unconditionally accepted his terms. Scot Ramsay MacDonald had made a great oration in Parliament [cheers] which had been echoed loudly by other orations from His Majesty's Opposition [cheers]. More notably, His Majesty's Britannic Government had spread the Hoover generosity around the globe by offering to His Majesty's Indian and the Dominion Governments the same concessions which His Majesty's Britannic Government received [cheers]. Lazy, bankrupt...
...first day of play, the heat wave, against which the British had complained, broke in a loud thunderstorm, the British Ryder Cup team lost three out of four two-ball foursomes. Next day, Gene Sarazen kept his trousers pressed and his shirt buttoned up, beat Fred Robson, seven up. He appalled Robson on the fourth hole by driving his ball into a refreshment stand, playing a niblick shot off the floor & through a window to within eight feet of the hole. Bill Burke, Greenwich, Conn., professional, beat erratic Archie Compston seven up. A home-town gallery was with Densmore Shute...
Browne finds an interesting analogy to Christianity under the Roman Empire. "Like Communism in the twentieth century, the new religion was made the bugaboo and the scapegoat of the age. . . . There was a frowardness about it, a loud insurgency, which made it seem a thousandfold its size. (The analogy with Communism is disconcertingly close.)" When Christianity became legal, then official, it began what Browne describes as a reign of terror. "Of all the virtues possessed by the Christians, tolerance was last and least." Under Julian the Apostate's empery came a brief interregnum. Even St. Augustine is flayed by Author...