Word: loudnesses
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...White House darkly. Warren Delano Robbins, official U. S. arbiter elegantarium, had been caught out on the front steps in formal attire (see cut) which outraged professional taste. "Beau Nash" (Alfred Stephen Bryan) who writes "What the Well Dressed Man Should Wear" in New York theatre programs criticized out loud...
Chairman Huston, whose temporary use of Muscle Shoals lobbying funds for his stockmarket account caused loud demands for his resignation, had promised a statement when the Senate adjourned (TiME, July 21). When the Senate session did end, Mr. Huston was nowhere to be found. President Hoover despatched scouts in search of him. James Francis Burke, general counsel of the National Committee and Joseph Randolph Nutt, its treasurer, hurried to New York on a tip, cornered Mr. Huston at the Ritz Carlton Hotel, presented a White House ultimatum, sped back to Washington to report to the President. Next day Mr. Huston...
Speaking with visible weariness to an immense throng at Mainz, struggling to read his speech in a loud ringing voice which quavered now and then, Old Paul cried...
...inhalator's carbon dioxide, which stimulates breathing, can harm lung tissue. He would not, they said, let anyone use an inhalator on one of their drowning patients. A pulmotor pumps oxygen into the lungs too quickly, in their opinion. As the life guards and doctor argued long and loud, police arrived with another inhalator. The police drove the life guards away, applied their inhalator. The victim, Hyman Getzkin, by that time was dead...
...best-laid plans did not so much go wrong as turn inside out, a trick of Fate's (or Author Kahler's) which enabled him to refrain from beating his breast-in fact, to receive congratulations on his shrewdness-when, an unwilling wedding guest, he heard the loud bassoon. Author Hugh MacNair Kahler, 47, is of that school of U. S. writers which owes allegiance to Booth ("Old Tark") Tarking ton. Although Father Means Well is his first novel, Author Kahler is a well known short-story writer and has been at it for years. Tall, lean, pleasant...