Word: loudnesses
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...bulletin: SACCO MURDERED! (Loud but orderly cries of indignation, booes, catcalls. But no fiercer than the noise that a 10,000 base ball-crowd makes when a favorite disappoints. Flares and the Internationale, which soon died...
Second Fiddles. The scrape of the second fiddle grew loud in the land as a score of the G. O. P.'s ablest performers suddenly learned that the big solo part might have to be reassigned. While the performers tuned up and decided what to play, their friends bowed to the audience to make preliminary introductions. Henry Ford bowed for Herbert C. Hoover. William Randolph Hearst bowed for Andrew W. Mellon. Frank 0. Lowden rushed home to Illinois from the Thousand Islands and repeated his favorite cryptogram about no man ever running away from the presidency. Vice President Dawes clenched...
...Fascist press kept up a steady barrage of comment favorable to paunchy King Fuad, and whenever he rode out crowds of Fascisti displayed loud enthusiasm...
...crowd cheered for the eleventh Channel swim in history and the first attempt this season. In London, the feat was signalized at Lloyd's (insurance exchange) by a clanging of the Lutine Bell and the loud voice of a public crier. Headlines ejaculated decorously all over Britain. The U. S. Press took the news more calmly. Only 364 days before, the Ederle performance had called forth some of the biggest typefaces in the composing room, for front page screamers. Now no room at all could be found for Mr. Temme on the front pages of leading U. S. newspapers...
Since there is a possibility that the man-being, a sublime and God-begotten "Son of Heaven," already exists, the ritual of last week should have been accompanied by loud banging of brazen instruments and public demonstrations. Because the Court is in mourning for the Emperor Hirohito's late father (TIME, Jan. 23) these festivities were omitted...