Word: louder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Come to think of it though," a thought brightened his mind, "it's a good thing I got stewed last night. Now I don't have to go to class today." His logic was obvious. "No class today . . ." He repeated, "No class today . . ." in a louder voice to be sure that his awakened senses had heard the good news. It reminded him in his nocturnal lethargy of those lovely bygone days when cutting classes did not even involve a thought...
...Inchball, you have gone and now we must follow. Your innate light alone will join us for that triumphant brawl. Only you, Inch, can pull us out and send us on with your louder copy call. And behind us in the woods we leave the babes, forcing them to scheme for the breath of life. It is over, dear Inch, for us, a raging finger-snap, a dream before the alarm, and we leave behind the children, timidly laughing in the bushes...
Already the season's most controversial play, Thornton Wilder's cockeyed The Skin of Our Teeth (TIME, Nov. 30) last week started a louder controversy concerning its source. In the Saturday Review of Literature Sarah Lawrence College's Joseph Campbell and Reader's Digest Editor Henry Morton Robinson blasted Wilder's account of the human race as "an Americanized recreation, thinly disguised, of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake...
...hours after his guest had departed, old Muley Doughton magnanimously held his tongue. Then, unable to restrain himself any longer, he had his office issue a communique whose note of triumph was the louder for being restrained: "Mr. Morgenthau said that . . . he was anxious to cooperate with . . . Congress in the most helpful way possible in working out a satisfactory tax program. Secretary Morgenthau made it plain . . . that he was most anxious to continue to work in harmony with the committee in whatever manner it was deemed would produce the best results...
...Louder in the ears of the Italians was the ominous roar and rattle of the Allied military machine in North Africa. Virtually splitting their eardrums were the scream and crump of "blockbuster" bombs devastating the great industrial cities of Turin, Genoa, Milan...