Word: louders
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...summer it was perfectly natural, but in the fall something ought to be done about it. A raffle at the end of one of the football games. Perhaps one of the smaller, early affairs, which would not attract a crowd otherwise. Everyone would get out there and cheer louder than he ever had before, because of the approaching excitement; that was pretty good, and Vag walked jauntily: soon they'd call him Machiavel Vag. He could see the crowd shouting, Harvard men shouting, for in his mind they would have the cherished prize of...of.., sure, Memorial Hall. Mem Hall...
Every time the BBC's lady film critic took the air, MGM's edgy London staff winced. When Critic E. (for Eileen) Arnot Robertson reviewed MGM's The Green Years, it was the last straw. "When will Hollywood learn," she asked, "that to make everything larger, louder and lumpier than life is simply to diminish its effects...
...same tactics were used by Smith's hoodlums to break up a Communist meeting, that would be a "bad thing." As the W's and du B point out, "the demonstration was incredibly well-organized" and "is it a denial of free speech for the audience to be louder than the man addressing it?" This makes beauty of organization and violence basic criteria in matters of discussion. It puts all opinion not backed by muscles as hard as the heads of those engaging in such discussion at the mercy of hardness...
...will be the leader," it was quite reasonable that he be answered before he spoke at all. The Crimson editorialist fails altogether to grapple with the main question raised by the outshouting of Smith, which is: is it a denial of free speech for the audience to be rather louder than the man who is addressing it? Precedent is altogether in favor of the right to boo; hissing-down is a hoary Parliamentary tradition; if it appears indecorous, not cricket, or "rowdy," as your editorialist put it, pray recall that generations of English Lords have been experts at all manner...
...million tons of coal a year (about one-fifth of the nation's annual production), had been clamoring for higher rates in order to meet employees' demands for a 20?-an-hour wage boost even before the new coal prices hit them. Now they would be clamoring louder than ever...