Word: loudnesses
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...When the box was enlarged, it immediately became apparent that the old method of relaying the announcement from a centrally placed spotter to all ends of the enclosure was not going to work when the box was filled to capacity. Accordingly in time for the Army game, two large loud speakers were installed in the center...
...devilish ingenuity exhibited by some persons in combining the alarm clock effects of a loud cut-out and a sing-song auto horn throughout the length of Mt. Auburn Street just as the majority of the residents of Randolph, Claverly and the other Mt. Auburn buildings are about to surrender themselves to the soothing to embrace of Morpheus, merits a drastic cure. For the benefit of New York's commission, a variation of the Chinese torture is suggested, whereby all these destroyers of peace be sentenced to padded cells, where they may slowly starve to death to the tune...
Coffee, Brazilian coffee, made U. S. businessmen hop and howl like Hottentots last week around Manhattan's big brass Coffee Ring. They hopped on each others toes. They hopped higher on camp stools. When they could neither hop high enough or howl loud enough to make a buyer or seller on the other side of the ring understand, they bent low and plunged for the round brass railing, elbowing each others stomachs, yelling "Seven-Jan-Santos!" or "Four-Dec-Rio!" Arms waved and fingers waggled. It was stark, raving business bedlam-the biggest, blackest, wildest day in years...
...THIS IS MY PARTY!" he roared when Senators Shortridge, Robinson (of Arkansas) and Allen tried to run the hearing in an orderly way. In spite of them he played a loud, smart game of personage-baiting, dragging one famed figure after another into his melodramatic past...
...early years in the Reichstag Stresemann was quite the blustering Junker that he looked. He spoke loud and long for Germany's need for territorial expansion, he obediently voted every increase in Germany's Imperial army. Throughout the War he was one of the Kaiser's most devoted followers, defending indiscriminate submarine warfare against the attacks of Chancellor von Bethmann-Hollweg. With the Armistice and the disastrous Treaty of Versailles a sudden change came upon him. Always acutely practical he realized that right or wrong in the War, Germany was beaten, that her only hope of salvation...