Word: loudnesses
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Some there are who even seek to win applause by study. Perhaps because of physical debility or fear of the more active competitions on the pig fields, they take refuge in their books, often memorizing entire volumes for the sake of the Prophezzors' praise. If that praise rings loud enough, they are shown more special honor. A special committee of Prophezzors awards to the men chosen a huge brass slab called for some strange reason, a "key." This device is worn in a very showy position just over their stomachs and bears the legend: "Reading maketh a full man. Behold...
...SHOW-OFF-Glorifies the human loud speaker who tells the world everything...
...Second Young Man with Same G. B. Bingham '28 Third Young Men with Same H. M. Fox '28 A Girl Marie Geare Second Girl Mary Forsberg A Mother Grace Michelman Her Elder Daughter Miss Hoyman A Younger Daughter Miss Lewis Baboon-Faced Policeman C. D. Gowing '28 Newsboy with Loud Voice H. L. Kozol '27 Second Newsboy Ernest Gross '27 Third Newsboy H. L. Ellison '28 Plainclothes Man W. B. Dunne '27 Susan Kettle Rhodita Edwards Kennedy Biggs, Celebrated Novelist D. L. Dickson '27 A He Intellectual W. B. Wilson '26 A She Intellectual Olga Frothingham A Tea Drinker Harriet...
Naval enthusiasts were loud in their praise of the Navy's floating mooring mast, which pessimists had claimed would be rendered useless by the rolling of the vessel; but for more than 12 hours the airship remained securely anchored in a northwest wind blowing 30 miles an hour. On her return voyage, heavy head-on winds were bucked and consequently it took 20 hours to make the trip. The next voyage will be to Porto Rico...
...Loud, pitching for Exeter, proved consistently baffling to the University batsmen, turning away 12 men on strikes, and giving but three scattered safeties...