Word: loudnesses
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...past three years remarkable advances have been made in the telephone art. The most notable of these include the extension of transcontinental service to Havana, Cuba, through a submarine cable from Key West; the use of loud-speaking apparatus in connection with the transcontinental line in simultaneous ceremonies at Arlington, Va., New York and San Francisco, on Armistice Day, 1921; and the linking up of wire and wireless transmission in speech from ship to shore and across the Atlantic. All of these developments are due wholly or in part to the American Telephone and Telegraph Company and the Western Electric...
...COVERED WAGON.-The publicity experts have been making themselves objectionable about this picture for some time. They have proclaimed it in loud and raucous tones as something like nothing else in heaven or on earth. Now the picture is here and there is no comeback. The publicity was all an understatement. It is a masterpiece of restraint, of realism, of power. In it are crystallized the rigors and magnificences of the pioneers who wound slowly over the 2,000 miles of the Oregon Trail in '48, daring perils of Indians and starvation and rushing rivers...
...other evening Mr. Mengelberg and the Philharmonic orchestra applied themselves to a laborious task. This was Mahler's Seventh Symphony, which represents hard work for all hands through a full hour and a half. The result of the adventure was to renew the loud chorus of those who dislike Mahler's music. They are many, and their dislike is intense. The criticisms of the work in the morning papers were savage...
...have hunted with ten packs this season (loud cheers) and have come across very little barbed wire. (Cheers.) We are grateful to the farmers for the help they have given to keep going a sport without which I do not think this country would be what it is today." (Prolonged cheers...
Meanwhile Tokyo is aroused by loud clashes between the Ken-Sie-Kai party (pro manhood suffrage) and the Taisho Red Heart League (anti). And the people are at odds with the police...