Word: loudnesses
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...dirty bills, a week's gas receipts. He was thinking of the money and hoping that his partner would come back soon, so that they could take it home to- gether. There are bandits in Trenton. . . . Suddenly, on the door of the gas station, boomed a loud knock. Mr. Frommel jumped up. As he opened the door he saw two Trenton bandits with guns, scowls, masks, caps and sweaters. Terrified, Edward Frommel fell back in a sitting posture. The thieves leaped at the door, shoved it fiercely back upon the hickory leg of Edward Frommel. The bandits cursed...
...long time people have been trying to find a phrase that will define the personality of the Rev. John Roach Straton, Manhattan preacherman. "Fundamental-ist," "Denouncer," "Loud Baptist," "Saint," "Savior," "Hypocrite," "Dolt" have been variously tried by friends and enemies; none have seemed adequate. Last week the Rev. Mr. Straton made still more difficult the task of definers by as- suming "the headship of all the religious activities of the Supreme Kingdom...
Last week a loud noise was heard in the Rocky Mountains. It was a new newspaper in Denver, the Morning Post. It had been started to drown out the Rocky Mountain News at the Rocky Mountain breakfast table in retaliation for an attack by the News' new owners upon the old-time Denver Post in the evening field...
...grave. For constructing the Imperial Hearse he will receive the princely fee of 100,000 yen ($50,000). No one else knows the secret of constructing the wheels of the funeral car so that they will emit the traditional "mourning squeak." At the hubs a mechanism capable of emitting loud groans will be installed. Finally the hearse will be made of unvarnished cypress, oak, teakwood and fir, 12 feet high, 23½ feet long, the whole polished to glassy smoothness...
Irreverent readers of the published results were loud in facetious badinage. Thinking members of the church, with or without regard to these former, felt that the campaign had been injudicious - that the wind of the spirit, blowing whithersoever it listeth, is scarcely to be gauged by a meteorological chart...