Word: louders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Whalen, the fastidious police chief who was inducted to quiet the Rothstein uproar, squared his handsomely tailored shoulders, sat up late seeking clues. His detectives swarmed spectacularly through the Broadway brightlight district making raids, seeking witnesses. Other detectives chased a trail leading to Boston. Said the Commissioner: "Actions speak louder than words...
More wonderful for its massive tonal quality than for its artistic brilliance was the singing of the 4,000. The roof that has often reverberated with mass advice to fisticuffers, bicycle riders, marathon dancers, reverberated that night with the more melodious, even louder tones of such old-time favorites as Mendelssohn's "On Wings of Song," Bohm's "Calm as the Night," Elgar's "Land of Hope and Glory." Reinald Werrenrath soloed "Danny Deever" until tears rolled down many a cheek. Then he sang "On the Road to Mandalay," assisted in the chorus...
...These rumors are hellish" said the delegate from Austin, Minn. The delegates thereupon thundered more Amens and clapped louder than ever...
...shook his head impatiently to get the wet off his face. The fringes of the crowd melted away. Indians in full war paint (friends and race relatives of the Vice President) retreated to shelter under the Capitol's main portico. The President began to hurry his words, faster, louder, doggedly, as the tattoo of water from above grew louder and louder. It was, Boris must have thought, dismal weather...
...Calkins is president of Calkins & Hoiden Inc., prominent Manhattan agency, books on advertising include Louder Please (Atlantic Monthly Press, $2.50), The Business of Advertising (D. Appleton & Co., $2.00), Business, the Civilizer (Little, Brown, & Co., $3.00), and The Advertising Man (Scnbner...