Word: clamorous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There exist ample $5, $10 and $20 gold pieces. But a $2.50 piece appears just as big to a Christmas recipient. So depositors clamor for the smaller coins. This year the Treasury minted 388,000 of them and distributed them among the 12 Federal Reserve Banks. And not even at the request of many bankers would it mint more. In the New York Federal Bank district, members last week could only get ten $2.50 gold pieces each. Bonuses. Banks and investment houses are notorious for the low salaries they pay their clerks. Handsomest presents reported last week were First National...
...unprecedented success of my magnum opus of last year. "The Forecast Saga, "had led to a popular clamor for a sequel, to called "The Silver Shovel." And I promised to write it, but the little woman has put her foot down. She says my life story must not appear, that she does not want to have to share me with all the world. Vainly I tried to argue that there was enough of me to go round. "If there is, " I said, "something in my story that makes young hearts beat faster, is it fair not to give...
...opinion," said Senator Fess after what the press called his "scolding," "that the mere fact that the President does not say something more in face of the general public clamor, is proof enough that he intends to accept the nomination when it is offered to him. . . . It is the Coolidge way of doing things; it is the Coolidge psychology...
...general public clamor" President Coolidge continued unresponsive, leaving G. O. Politicians just about where they were before. Men as daring as Senator Fess said that the "Draft Coolidge" movement had been vastly advanced, since now it must be seen that the draft would be genuine. Others were vexed, not daring to boom for Mr. Hoover, Mr. Hughes, Mr. Lowden, Mr. Dawes or Mr. Whoever until sure that they could believe in a convention prediction which Senator Fess has reported President Coolidge to have made. This prediction was one word shorter than the famed "choice." The President said...
Sometimes, though, the gloom of this nocturnal-clamor is not false. Last week the Paris, big transatlantic steamer of the French Line, was churning softly down the harbor to the sea. Captain Yves Thomas steered past a line of wooden barges, humped like haymows on the water; wheeled his great ship to pass a steamer. AH he rounded it, he saw the lights of a Norwegian freighter, the Beesengen, riding at anchor. It was too late to swing the bow, too late to reverse his course. Shrill bells and whistles sounded as the bow of the Paris drove into...