Word: loudnesses
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Subscriptions cost 1,900 francs a year ($75). Electricians who come clumping in to install the device bring a loud speaker and two pairs of headphones. Thereafter the subscriber may listen, every night and two afternoons a week, to whatever may be sung at the Opera, or played in such famed theatres as the Odeon or Comedie Française. Already half a dozen hit-show theatres supplement this list; and Le Théatrophone seems to have definitely caught on. One typically French restriction is imposed. The subscriber may not switch from one performance to another while the first...
...arguments of a post-election whispering campaign have at length become so loud that a mere "Hush!" from those called big-wigs is not enough to silence the speakers. Whatever that hard-gained Smith majority in the Bay State may have signified politically, it gave Governor Fuller, long the Republican Party's second prize publicity artist, a chance to step out to a sizeable lead over his once superior opponent, the vociferous Mr. Goodwin. Working on the sufficient assumption that an officer soon to be emeritus is safe from slings and arrows, the Governor has been chuckling pretty constantly...
Papa Benito bounced in turn upon a large white horse. Prancing and bouncing, and cheered by loud Fascist "Ala-ala-ala-las!" the Prime Minister and his Big-Eyed Babe rode once around Ancient Rome, out the Appian Way a piece, back...
...opening speech of the evening, First Marshal O. S. Loud '29 addressed the gathering as follows: "It is in virtue of your records in Harvard College that you have been judged deserving of the honor of election to membership in a fraternity that for more than 150 years has sought to acknowledge and, in so far as possible, to reward the achievements of true scholarship. And in order that you appreciate that honor in the light of the traditions and ideals of the fraternity, it is the custom of some time that you be given at this hour a brief...
...taken, had his fare paid by friends. The newspapers of Lincoln, Neb., printed advertisements saying "Beat the Army," Nebraska's Governor sent a telegram; a great parade of students moved through the streets; the noise of the train as it pulled out of Lincoln was not so loud as the noise made by those who watched it go; a day later the team got off at Albion College, Mich., and practiced. The Cornhuskers then proceeded to West Point-an unbeaten team...