Word: loudnesses
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...desert if they want to investigate me. . . . It's funny, isn't it, that the first investigation of me should come when I'm out of town. I wonder why they didn't investigate me while I was in New York?" And at Dallas, Texas he was laughing out loud. "I'm a laugher," he told reporters. "We need more laughers. I've just talked an hour and a half with New York," he added...
...nice, oldish gentleman of short stature with silky white hair and keen blue eyes opened the Canadian Parliament at Ottawa last week, read loud and clear the "Speech from the Throne" of absent George...
...play off its feet every time he made his appearance; all of which was a considerable help to a limping plot. The hero of the love element, fortunately not very important, was best characterized by a remark of a young lady in the audience who remarked in a loud tone as he first appeared on the screen, "Wait until she sees him!" The surprise could not have been over-whelmingly pleasant...
North Carolina's Dry Senator Cameron Morrison threw the meeting into wild confusion with another loud speech along the same line. His attacks on Chairman Raskob for injecting Prohibition into the meeting brought boos and hisses from the audience. Angrily he exclaimed: "Oh, your jeering methods, your hisses! But understand you'll never tie the Democratic party down to death and destruction for lack of men who scorn your hisses and defy your unfair methods. . . . If the Democracy would cease this foolishness over liquor we could go forward to a great triumph...
Unless you were told, you would certainly never think Heinrich Mann was brother to Nobel Prize-winner Thomas. Their books are poles apart. Thomas's are quiet, philosophical, analytic; Heinrich's loud, nightmarish, operatic. The Little Town is like a garish and improbable opera played at top speed, with singers, chorus and brassy orchestra all blaring at once for dear life. The effect is sometimes uproarious, sometimes deafening, occasionally sinister...