Word: loudnesses
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...Milwaukee man posed. The President posed. The son hunted for them in the finder of the camera, maneuvering nervously for the proper position. Nervous himself, the father explained, directed, called orders in a loud and louder voice. The President got nervous, too. His sun-bleached eyebrows contracted, his freckled cheeks grew hard. He turned his head and said something to the Milwaukeean, something which to bystanders sounded very much like: "Shut up your head or get out of here...
...racket is a trade or vocation which is loud, bold and often illegal. For example, there is the bootlegging racket, the murder-for-money racket, the dry cleaning racket (in which Gangster "Scarface Al" Capone of Chicago was hired to protect a group of dry cleaners). A racketeer is one who practices a racket...
Every proud U. S. city has one or more public golf links where, of a Sunday morning, there is a confusion of white knickers, strangely-hued sweaters, sliced drives, flubbed putts, loud curses, impertinent caddies. But these same links have also produced groups of players whose golf is a source of amazement to the Sunday crowds and who may often be seen practising on weekday afternoons...
...Lions, tigers and all cleanly cats eschew the foul place, but snakes, lizards and-in the oozy lakes-crocodiles are noxiously at home. Branded upon memory may remain a fight between two mammoth crocodiles, each some 20 feet long-savage devils, mercilessly tearing, raking, lunging, thrashing the ooze with loud slaps of mighty tails. The eyes seem to glare with sheer hate, remorseless, soulless, infernal. The defeated crocodile, mangled and dead, is not eaten until it has partially decayed and thus become more succulent to the victor. Pigmies. Suspicious of the white man, Congo Pigmies often set thin, poisoned stakes...
...John Pierpont Morgan's lithe, athletic and slightly deaf cousin, Joseph Clark Grew, the U. S. Ambassador to Turkey, heard a loud cry for help last week while ferrying across the Bosporus, leaped in, rescued the Turkish lady...