Word: loudnesses
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...another time Mr. Powys had accused an African "Man of God" of stealing goats and had been heartily cursed in return. That night, as he lay in the dark, he heard a ghastly laugh, he writes, "long and loud, whining and wailing up from the forest, up from the gully, so I judged. I tried to reassure myself. Surely it was the howl of a hyena feasting on the remains of the dead buck? But even as my mind was suggesting this, my subconscious self knew that it lied. That criminal human outcry, it could issue from no animal throat...
...Page 1, The Sun (Baltimore) ex claimed: "HORATIO ALGER IN 1924 - 'Tattered Toms' play but a minor part in the distribution of the Sun-papers. We have newsboys in Balti more -hustling kids with voices as loud as and with car-hopping agility equal to those of any other city. But . ". . carrier circulation is the back bone of the Sunpapers-delivery directly into the home, not by the glorified newsboy of fiction, but by exclusive carriers, supervised by members of the Sun Route Owners Association, responsible business men who can glorify themselves after working hours...
Laurel wreaths having gone out of fashion, the U. S. welcomed its victorious athletes on their return from the eighth Olympiad with noise-loud noise - emitted through the natural national mouth, Manhattan...
...West-"where men are men and not black-face comedians." (P. 17.) Loud noise, emitted through the natural national mouthpiece...
...SHOW-OFF?Wherein the loud mouth is muffled in deft travesty...