Word: loudnesses
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...Good Bad Woman. When a play goes so far as to annoy The New York World into leading editorial and front page protest, it must be fairly grimy. For the World, as everyone knows, is the loud speaker of anticensorship. And yet the World says of A Good Bad Woman: "Messrs. William A. Brady and Al. Woods have dug even deeper [than David Belasco] into the pile of dramatic offal...
...gazing intently for several minutes, while those on the float held their breath. Finally he headed for the boat house. The spectators stood on tiptoe. As the boat drew hearer, a wide grin could be seen stretching Charlie's mouth from ear to ear, "Boss", he shouted, with a loud guffaw, "that ain't no body. That's a heap of ashes...
...three days, at Saranac Lake, N. Y., pistols have poked the frosty air, figures have shot over the ice, round and round a roped course, their skates knocking loud. Out of the shooting, the knocking, comes a new U. S. speed skating champion-one Francis Allen of Chicago. He competed in the 440-yard, the half-mile, the three-quarter-mile, the one-mile, the twomile, the five-mile races, scored 100 points; his nearest rival, Valentine Bialis of Lake Placid scored...
...security not only of our country, but for the security of peace. But let no one think that in seeking the security and peace of the world this Government will neglect its first charge of providing security for its own country." At the conclusion of his speech there were loud cries of affichage (printing and posting of the speech throughout France). After some dissension, caused by Alexander Varenne, Socialist leader, trying to introduce a supplementary sentence to the speech, affichage was carried 541 to 32 votes, the Opposition, Communists excepted, voting for the Government. Paris newspapers offered nothing but praise...
...Kangaroo" had shot the ball into the wicket keeper's gloved hands and a fraction of a second later the ball flew off the stumps just a fraction of a second before the English batsman could shove his bat over the "popping crease" (batting line). England was beaten. Loud cheers and glad faces in Australia. Silence and long faces in England...