Word: loudnesses
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Witnesses grew weary traipsing back and forth between the two committees all week long. Their testimony grew jumbled in the confusion of double hearings. But above the welter of words and figures, the loud police court methods of interrogation used by unfriendly Senators, the first poundings and cane thumpings of vehement witnesses, emerged the definite out lines of a real and important division of opinion on naval policy...
...Loud Speaker; Secrets. Silent but alert throughout the London negotiations has been the Navy League of the U. S., well-organized Big-Navy propaganda agency. Founded 25 years ago, this civilian organization headed by William Howard Gardiner of Manhattan favors "limitation by agreement," repudiates "reduction by example." It protests any cut in naval personnel, supports every building program that comes along, spreads naval information far and near. Last week the Navy League lifted a voice of warning against any hasty ratification of the London treaty. That President Gardiner thought he had something ominous up his mufti sleeve was suggested when...
...therefore is not libel to say a woman does something which custom makes perfectly proper for her to do." Teacher Warren's lawyers, however, stated that she never drank or smoked, that "she didn't think nice women did such things." Soon the jurymen began wrangling loud enough to be heard in the courtroom. When they appeared next day without a decision, five of them would not speak to the other seven...
...Sage, onetime rustler (horse-thief, cattle-thief), cowboy, broncobuster, sheriff, moonshiner, lived a rough life. Now he is in the movies. Rustler Sage's book is a loud, boastful, colorful account of a loud, boastful, colorful career...
...Mike's saloon. By far the best act in the Olio was not in the oldtime minstrel tradition, but bore the stamp of the modern night club. It was provided by Messrs. Sidney Easton and Bert Howell, whose trick improvisations on ukulele, violin, and portable organ brought loud applause even from those who wanted their minstrelsy atavistic...