Word: loudnesses
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Music weeks and festivals have raised loud ensembles all over the country during the closing season days. The most notable undoubtedly is the Cincinnati Music Festival. This function is wrapped with the triple dignities of age, bigness and merit. Cincinnati celebrates its Golden Anniversary Festival, the 50th yearly invocation of tuneful sound. The first festival was directed by Theodore Thomas in 1873. All of these events have been large and ceremonious...
...copy of the older Cambridge institution and it yet lacks certain of the distinctive features of its Cambridge proto-type. It possesses no Dining Hall for instance. The installation of wireless marks another respect in which Cambridge is in advance of Oxford. The latest news is broadcasted from a loud speaking instrument each evening and concerts are also received. Most continental countries can be "picked up" and even American can be heard. Unfortunately America is not "picked up" till after 12 P. M., when all undergraduates have to be in their rooms, but no doubt a special dispensation...
Barnum's patriotism, loud and strong, served him as a financial asset. His personal piety befriended church and circus. Clergymen not only used free tickets, which Barnum sent them for " The Greatest Moral Show on Earth," but they brought Barnum's name into the pulpit...
...profession, a raconteur who has only one equal in my experience [Irvin Cobb], he is a solid, jolly, gloom- defying gentleman. Ruddy of countenance, with hair slightly graying and usually rumpled, a bristly mustache, large shoulders and a stocky trunk, he talks positively and punctuates his conversation with loud and infectious laughter...
Obstinacy. The third Marquis of Salisbury, father of Lord Robert Cecil, once made a speech at Oxford, in which he referred to his countrymen as the "English." The speech was interrupted by loud cries of "British!" "What aboot the Scots!" But Salisbury went doggedly ahead and continued to say "English." In the same spirit France continues her policy in the Ruhr. She pays no heed to the economic consequences of her occupation of Germany's great industrial area, and, as obstinate as was the Marquis of Salisbury in saying "English," France is obstinate in believing that she will...