Word: loudnesses
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Last week the officers of this institution learned with alarm that the U. S. debt claims upon France were being held up to ridicule by a loud-voiced Parisian revue performer, Mlle. Marcelle Parisys, in Quel Beau Nu at the Concert Mayol, Paris, (TIME, Feb. 8). Swiftly the following cablegram was despatched to the Washington-Lafayette Institute's Paris agent: "Parisys' number Mayol against America bad effect on press here. Will do much harm if continued. See revue; also Oscar Dufrenne, producer; explain what Washington-Lafayette is doing. Cable results...
Count Volpi ascended the Tribune, spoke: "No nation has been vanquished and no nation has been victorious in our debt agreements with England and the United States. [Loud cheering, since the Italians consider Count Volpi, if not 'victorious,' extremely 'successful.']... With the fluctuations of the exchange, Italy's War debts once reached a figure almost ten times larger than that at which they are now set.... Our foreign liabilities are (theoretically) completely covered by German reparations under the Dawes plan...
...slow-spoken man, slick at hunting and swapping, but not clever, moves his family up to Knob Creek on the Louisville-Nashville pike. Young Abe walks four miles to school, a one-room school with no windows, a "blab" school where you say your lessons to yourself out loud until time to recite to the Irish Catholic teacher. At home little Abe is chore-boy, toting water, billets, ashes and the things for beer-making. He rides (without pants, he's a "shirttail boy") the horse drawing the "bull-tongue" plow; he tends his father's stallion and brood mares...
...itself, where the Dutch inhabitants usually accord him a silent salute by gravely tipping their hats. At noon he received the congratulations of his entourage and servants. At 4 p. m. he delivered a birthday speech "with energy in a high voice" to his guests, and was greeted with "loud hochs...
...Though loud, it is essentially passionless. To explain it is as impossible as to plumb the soul. Such words as a psychologist might apply,--envy, anticipation, diversion,--are utterly profane...