Word: loudnesses
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...this forenoon, at which President Hoover was the leading guest, the convention was practically ''stolen" by our "Cal" Coolidge, America's leading private citizen. When Mr. Coolidge was introduced to the convention with the pronouncement that he would not make a speech, the convention cheered with loud yells for a speech for some five or six minutes. Finally Mr. Coolidge stepped to the front of the platform, raised his hand and said, "You can save time for this convention," etc. He got no further, and the applause and cheering continued for three or four minutes more, while...
...other would have thought of emitting posthumous messages to Congress every morning in or out of session. Mr. Coolidge is an original. He is the first man ever put four wheel brakes on a Jew's harp. He has almost invented a silent loud speaker. And he is a perfect master of the enematic style-a squirt of warm water in the place of breakfast...
...Harvard CRIMSON did call the American Legion Convention a "wholesale brawl etc." Well! "deah"! me!. Lets give three long rahs for Harvard and the CRIMSON only don't make them too loud, it might annoy the "death" old "Harvard Ladies"!! Of course, the scenes of disorder were caused by Cambridge and Boston hoodlums, amongst whom were probably some students, too young to have been "over there" in 1918, and who wouldn't have been there if they could have, but anyway do you "death old things" really think the Legion (900,000 MEN NOT children) care what the CRIMSON thinks...
...speech was Prohibition, prime question before the Albany convention. No credit was claimed even for the President's appointment of the National Commission on Law Observance and Enforcement. When the keynoting Secretary mentioned the fine work of Dwight Whitney Morrow as Ambassador to Mexico, the delegates applauded long and loud. Mr. Morrow is a thoroughgoing Republican Wet and the New Yorkers were about to demand repeal of the 18th Amendment. Likewise Statesman Stimson had very little to say about government economy, because Federal expenditures have increased to offset unemployment. The World Court was disposed of in 15 words. Democratic critics...
...loud and prolonged ringing of a burglar alarm in the Gold Coast district last night attracted the attention of scores of students who sought out the disturbance and found that it emanated from the Lampoon building. It was suggested that someone might be in quest of the famed Ibis, Lampy's traditional symbolism...