Word: loudnesses
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...first day of September, in the year 1715, a high court official appeared on a balcony of the Palace of Versailles, holding his staff of office. In a loud voice he cried to ) the people: "The King is dead." Then he broke his staff, threw the pieces away, took another from a waiting attendant, cried: "Long Live the King!" In this way was the death of Louis XIV and the succession of Louis XV made known...
Since the 17th Century, Science has recognized the phenomenon that enables people stone deaf to hear conversation if exceedingly loud repercussions occur at the same time. Utilizing this principle, Dr. Byron E. Eldred of Manhattan has invented an ear trumpet. His apparatus consists of a box which, attached to an electric socket, shouts into the ear a large noise, part click, part scream, part whir, not unlike that of an electric train. At a recent meeting of the New York Otological Society, Dr. Eldred presented his invention. The society was skeptical...
Recently, the voices of these latter have become so loud as to resound on the Vassar Campus. During the past fortnight, Seniors consulted together: "Shall we abolish the Daisy Chain?" they asked. Last week, debate raged. After much pro and con, the issue was decided: the ceremony of the Daisy Chain will not be abolished, but will be held this year as usual...
...Perhaps these notices are but a hoax; perhaps no liquor will be served. But the thing suggests what I had hoped was a vanishing evil,--a lot of maudlin, loud-voiced and excited 'good fellers,' flushed and silly and unmanly, who next day will feel very much ashamed...
...nutshell reveals an odious tale of legislative tinkering. Books are to be mailed and backed and literature to be made a handmaid of the State Legislature, People will be led with spoonvictuals of Pollyanna strain. Authorship will amount to a disgraceful truckling to the prudes of a loud-voiced minority. The public press is to be silenced by a threat...