Word: loudnesses
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...Benito all the Senators and Deputies, except three or four, appeared in full evening dress. One Deputy provoked convulsions of merriment by appearing in "tails" and yellow boots; one wore a black shirt. The appearance of the King was a signal for roof-lifting applause which was as loud as it was long. Vittorio Emanuele, dressed in the uniform of a general, took his seat upon a throne, erected under a canopy of red velvet, decorated with the Arms of Savoy in gold. Above and behind him were the Queen and the Princesses Mafalda and Giovanna, surrounded by their households...
...world flyers (TIME, March 24, et seq.) landed at Kasumigaura, 90 miles from Tokyo, about one-quarter of their course completed. A loud chorus of banzais from a thousand throats, belonging to Japanese officers and bluejackets who were beribboned and bemedalled, greeted the aviators as they stepped from their machines. Hundreds of school children waving American flags shouted shrilly hundreds and hundreds more banzais. Major General Yasumitsu, Commander of the Army Air Service, was there, accompanied by Admiral Komoku, Chief of the Naval Air Service, American Army attaches, Governor Tsugeta of Ibarki Province and a delegation of 20 prominent citizens...
...meeting Saturday of the University Band, the following officers for the coming year were elected: Walter Harrington Kilham Jr. '25 of Boston, president; Richard Newton Benjamin '25 of New York City, business manager: Alan Salter Hays '24 of Buffalo, New York, secretary-treasurer; and Richard Loud '27 of Belmont, librarian. Ambrose Francis Keeley '27 of Fall River was appointed director to succeed Addison Simmous...
...hand, and platitudinous optimism on the other, it is hard to keep one's vision squarely on present facts and future probabilities. That 1924 is not destined to equal last year in the extent of most corporate profits is generally agreed- although not always out loud. In many respects it has been a disappointing Spring, especially if one started the year by believing all that orators at business men's dinners last January had to say upon "prosperity" and kindred topics. Several industries and lines of enterprise have faced an inevitable deflation- among them real estate and housing...
...SHOW-OFF ? A penetratingly faithful and intrinsically amusing dissection of a modern loud speaker...