Word: loudnesses
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Several persons walked out of the galleries. Others laughed out loud. Senator Blease turned to them...
...seven months President Hoover's Commission on Law Enforcement has been silently working behind closed doors. Wets and Drys have raised loud cries that the President had "submerged" Prohibition, demanded that the Commission produce something to justify its existence...
About the only place in Washington last week where there was no loud talk of Prohibition was at the White House. There President Hoover, puzzled by fresh eruptions on a question the importance of which he believes is exaggerated, kept his mouth closed, his ears open. There was plenty for him to hear...
...Loud demand by Senator Brookhart for removal not only of Secretary of the Treasury Mellon, but also of his three prime Dry enforcers: Under Secretary of the Treasury Mills, Assistant Secretary Lowman, Prohibition Commissioner Doran...
Many of Composer Pietro Mascagni's loud and pessimistic utterings seem prompted by a great personal grievance based on the failure of all his operas since Cavalleria in Rusticana. But his grounds for grumbling last week were broad, not personal. He had been commissioned to investigate the condition of opera in Italy on behalf of the Royal Academy at Rome. He had found: that of 100 opera houses only 15 are financially able to present a creditable winter season; that the reason is "the fictitious and arbitrary valuation'' of singers' services. To directors of the Academy...