Word: loudnesses
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...blind for his elaborate gambling house. Especially fond of blondes, he pats a manicurist's leg and asks her for advice, keeps a blonde canary in a cage. He warms up his luck by rubbing a blackamoor's head, a hunchback's shoulder, the lapels of his own loud clothing. When the police send a lady to get evidence on his gambling-house, Nick gives her a drink, then kicks her from behind. The picture grows a little less lively toward the end. Knowing that Nick trusts all blondes, the police use one to trap him. Nick is last seen...
Chief Justice Hughes is having the most enjoyable time of his career on the Supreme bench. When delivering an opinion, he throws back his black robe, lifts his white head, speaks out in a voice so loud and clear that John Marshall's bust trembles in its niche...
...union (TIME, March 30 et seq.). Dr. Curtius has yet to win a major diplomatic victory. He is a family man, devoted to his small children. Whenever he returns to Berlin from an official mission the crust of his formal reception at the railway station is punctured by their loud whoops. Studious and a hard, clear thinker, Husband Curtius has much that a Foreign Minister should have-has no genius...
Buckingham to Berlin, As a final British gesture, George V received the Germans at Buckingham Palace. From there "Iron Cross" Brüning set out for home to face German music, loud music, menacing music, stirred by his decree. In Berlin Communists had staged "hunger riots" against "Brüning the Hunger Dictator." Roaring defiance, these rioters broke windows, seized "hunger loot...
Well, it's obvious from that, that the weekend was spoiled. They heard President Lowell speak and Dr. Huey disrupted the very estimable gathering by offering, in a loud voice, to wager on the time he spoke. So they finally came home into last night thoroughly disgruntled. And the Vagabond is herein chronicling his side of the story for his own protection and, needs must add, watch out what Dr. Hu Flung Huey will do to those boat races! And that, too is not the mere bias of a literary quarrel as if may seem...