Word: loudnesses
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...SHOW-OFF-Amusing exposure of the futility of the great loud speaker...
...Good Old Walter" Johnson sought a second time to pitch a winning World's Series game. But Giant batsmen found his swift throws rare sport to bat about. They crashed 13 of them safely, circulated freely on the bases. Freddy Lindstrom, 18-year-old Giant third baseman, gained loud applause by making four hits and numerous fielding demonstrations. Jack Bentley, Giant pitcher, propelled the ball as well from the plate as toward it, getting a home run with two men on base. Score: New York 6, Washington...
...automobiles, one painted bright red, the members of the La Follette-Wheeler Club marched with loud cheers to the entrance of the Union on Quincy Street, where they stopped en masse, and gave four or five Harvard cheers for La Follette, which were answered with derogatory remarks from unsympathetic bystanders. After several more cheers, the La Follette backers extinguished their torches, and dispersed into the Union, where Mr. Norman Hapgood '90 was taking the platform for the Progressive party...
After the second act the audience learned back and laughed uncertainly, to prove that it was all just for fun, and that nobody really had been murdered at all. We laughed too--just as long and loud as we could--but we fear the man next to us looked a bit skeptical, as we have faint recollections of having grabbed him violently by the left leg (merely for support, of course) after the first revolver shot had been fired. To relieve the general feeling of uneasiness in the audience further a soprano came out between the acts with "What...
Lack of proper interference and a poor defense against forward passing are Yale's weakest points in the opinion of the Georgia players, who were chagrined at having lost by but a single point but admitted that the whistle alone prevented Yale from scoring another touchdown. All were loud in their praise of Captain Lovejoy and the ends and backs but none of them thought that the Yale team was as formidable as they had expected it to be. One of the Southern backs was heard to remark after the game: "If we'd known how poor they were...