Word: loudnesses
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...rugged and loud, Publisher Scripps was fair. He saw and honored Howard's point and let him, with Son Robert P. Scripps, step in to renovate the chain's policy...
...said nothing. He preached a gospel of "American individualism," promised a "job for every man," grew rhapsodic over "the home," vowed that only his election could perpetuate Republican prosperity. One might have thought he was running against thin air for all the notice he took of the energetic, loud-speaking, issue-raising, far-traveling Brown Derby. His cautious, banal campaign was unsatisfying to those citizens who prefer a direct discussion of immediate issues to a lofty dissertation on the abstractions of American idealism...
...draw nor is it overskillful. The singers act only when they feel their voices going back on them. This deficiency is startlingly revealed by closeups; there are times when the singers have the air of comics burlesquing grand opera stars. Their voices are not bad but they sing as loud as they can all the time and the recording makes the results even worse. The orchestra utters metallic clickings, moans sepulchrally in the lower register, makes the upper notes shrill and hollow...
Dive--Won by Loud (Y); second Waters Kellogg '34; third, Williamson...
With such epithets loud-yawping Mayor William Hale Thompson and publicity-crazed Municipal Judge John Homer Lyle belabored each other last week in the final round of their fight for the Republican nomination to be Mayor of Chicago. The primary election was to be held Feb. 24, their battleground was the Loop, their prize the honor of being the city's First Citizen during the Century of Progress (1933). Their hooligan antics, their vulgar language blanketed other reasonable is sues, obscured other candidates...