Word: loudnesses
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...sorts of homilies went the rounds, from the obvious one about "a little learning" to equally trite observations on the evils of Prohibition, of which, many recalled, President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia University has long been a loud opponent...
...book goes on at length concerning a simple maid who is about to be begged, borrowed, or stolen from her French Academy shelter by ruthless wooers, when Stone, the elder, swoops along in an airplane, hanging by his heels, and flips the lass into a heavier-than-air-haven. Loud applause-for sweet Dorothy, her still agile ancestor, and Mr. Dillingham's sumptuous effects...
Though the extremist minority was loud and active, a majority of the delegates received in gloomy silence an address on the present British labor situation by Robert Williams, Vice Chairman of the Labor Party, onetime longshoreman...
Vitaphone and The Better 'Ole (Syd Chaplin). While Al Jolson mouths "Mammy, Mammy" on the screen, the audience hears Al Jolson throat "Mammy, Mammy" out of what sounds like a loud radio. It is the Vitaphone, now well on its way to fame as purveyor of "canned" music to theatres too small to afford orchestras. After the same slightly harsh, but perfectly synchronized reproduction of Reinald Werrenrath, Elsie Janis, and The Howards, Syd Chaplin proceeds to ramble through a long string of war comics in a film, The Better 'Ole, based on Cartoonist Bruce Bairnsfather's characterization...
...Gibson, Ind., in a huge freight yard of the Indiana Harbor Belt R. R., Bell Telephone Co. engineers installed and announced perfect a radio telephone transmitter in the yard-master's signal tower and receiving sets with loud speakers in switch-engine cabs, the antennae being placed on the rear of the tenders. So perfect was the communication that engineers received their orders farther from the tower than their answering whistles could be heard...