Word: loudnesses
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When asked about the value of a college education in politics, Mr. Whiting was loud in its praises. "Outside of the mere bookish information which you acquire, college gives one a broader outlook on life and one's fellow men, and that after all is one of the greatest qualities a politician can have. In fact, all but seven presidents of the United States have been college graduates...
...able, active line, whilom Hearstling, who in 1923 branched out from running the national news service that bears his name to endeavoring to establish a chain of newspapers in the U. S. (beginning with two gum-chewers' sheetlets in California [TIME, Aug. 20, 1923]), last week made a loud announcement...
...which mean that they don't require over-acting. Except in two or three cases over-acting was the fly in the ointment of the St. James Company. Had the various parts been played with a little more subtlety and finesse, had there been less self-conscious attempts at loud-mouthed humor, the play would have been immensely better...
Thus ex-Premier Zogu, who was once ousted by the popular Bishop Noli (TIME, June 23), returned triumphant to his native soil, became Premier once more. In the capital, Tirana, he was received with loud cheers...
...Service-Barse and Hopkins ($2.00). " 'Fire, damn you.' . . . 'Hurry,' she cried to the policeman, 'Get help! He's sinking!' . . . 'Hell,' said Jones. Then he cornered Arootoo! . . ." Such statements, several to the page, enlighten this novel by Robert W. Service, loud versifier. The narrative concerns one Jerry Delane, whose career as a respectable member of society is cut short by an unjust imprisonment for safecracking. He becomes a pug, a hobo, a beachcomber, breaks noses in Frisco, hearts in Papeete. All these things Mr. Service has himself experienced; he also was once...