Word: loudnesses
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Precisely at 2:00 o'clock one afternoon the assistant doorkeeper of the Senate spoke out in a loud voice, interrupting the deliberations of that body and announcing the arrival in the chamber of nine Representatives. Vice President Dawes immediately ordered that the visitors be assigned seats and then announced, "The Sergeant at Arms will make proclamation...
Small wonder that, throughout the week, editorial comment scathed loud Lewis...
...paper to a group of picketers. That paper was a copy of the Riot Act, which provides that any assemblage that hears this act read to them must disperse within an hour or be liable to arrest. Sheriff Nimmo, a fox-faced man in spectacles, read in a loud voice. The crowd began to move away; some did not move fast enough, were stimulated with prodding clubs. Men began to hurry, fell over one another; women screamed; a squad of motorcycle police cleared...
Despite the singer's unquestioned conquest of his hearers, it was not until the last number he showed that he had not as yet reached the crescendo of his ability. "The Airman's Creed" by John Adams Loud completely took everyone aback. M. Marcoux had all the while not been able to bring out his true superbness. Excited applause brought him back at last for an encore, which was sung with a power that convinced everyone he at last had reached his best. Another encoure was demanded; and M. Marcoux sang ::The Open Road" and received a redoubled and prolonged...
Deputies of the Imperial Diet hurled Gargantuan phonetic sequences at one another in a loud and angry tone. In the galleries, fist fights were of frequent occurrence. The Kensei-kai and the Seiyu-kai (chief political parties) were at it again, with the Seiyu-honto alternately baiting and encouraging both. There was drawing to a close perhaps the stormiest session of the Imperial Diet in many years. Reijiro Wakatsuki. Above the squabbling undersized Deputies towered an old man, six feet in his stockings, who is still the amateur jiu-jitsu champion of Japan despite his 60 years. As a schoolboy...