Word: loudnesses
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...Much Promise? Arthur Holly Compton (U. of Chicago) asked: "Is a girl smoking and listening to jazz from a loud speaker what the great electrical pioneers have been working for. ... Is our science any more likely to last than the science of the ancient Greeks? Democritus thought he had solved the problem as to what, the world is made of and how. Yet around his atoms was staged the first great fight between science and philosophy. And Socrates and Plato, the opponents of science, won that fight. Greek science failed, though the civilization based upon it survived. Was this...
Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, wheel-horses of Manhattan's Theatre Guild, Helen Hayes, pudgy emotional actress, Bert Lahr, loud-voiced comic, and Jimmy Durante, long-nosed, button-eyed master of ceremonies who makes up his own gags, will work for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Lunt & Fontanne's first picture will probably be Private Lives...
...boat, was out in the early season with a broken arm he got wrestling. Half a dozen men tried out for stroke and none of them turned out to be a sensation. So here were two dark horses in the race-three counting Harvard, also contestant, also rather gloomy. Loud has been the yapping from Harvard alumni about the miserable crews, the continued superiority of Yale. One indignant gentleman of the class of 1903 wrote an open letter to the Crimson suggesting 18 reforms; one was that rowing be put in charge of 50 graduate oarsmen each of whom would...
...reputation in the clothing business. At 39, he branched out for himself, bought a Chicago nickelodeon (primitive cinema theater) and broke into the entertainment racket. From that out, his rise was picturesquely, Algeresquely steady. Motion Picture Patents Co. tried to freeze him out. Laemmle fought back tooth & nail with loud-barking publicity, many a lawsuit (289 in less than three years), lived to see his enemies scattered by legal mandate, his own fortune secured...
...wasted leather on the gritty paving stones in an attempt to keep the fire of life flaming high. He toyed with the idea of seeing the Red Sox, but then they always lose. He wandered up to the Treasure Room and found only two students talking in an excessively loud tone about the rate of subway fares out to Dorchester. Coming out of Widener he espied University Hall and a bright shaft of hope entered the barren wilderness of his soul. The publicity office. They might tell him something of interest. But in response to his query for news...