Word: louders
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...noises increased - louder percussions, trimmed with human screams, wardens' and firefighters' shouts, fire-engine clangs, the crackle of flames. Finally the pandemonium faded; the pale people were led out. They said that the thing was terrifying, but they were glad to have been through...
Judicious Judge Samuel Irving Rosenman (TIME, Sept. 1) had devised the scheme. His orders from the President were to survey the entire program, to suggest a reorganization which would settle the increasingly louder bickering. "Sammy the Rose," who believes in the efficiency of simpleness, began by calling on all defense chiefs. After a day of calls he would return to his quiet, comfortable White House room, knit his judicial brow, write down the problems to be solved...
They had begun to murmur when the State took away their plain little red schoolhouses, gave them public schools. But they did not move away, like their Amish cousins, who went to Maryland. They muttered louder when draft officials sent their pacifist young men to camps for conscientious objectors. But when AAA sent its agents in and told them how much wheat they could grow on their fertile acres, the Mennonites decided they had stood enough. They held a meeting, agreed to emigrate to the free frontier soil of Paraguay...
With storm warnings of the Russo-German rift, rumors of a change in Japanese policy, perhaps even a Cabinet reshuffle, grew louder each day. The Tokyo newspaper Nichi Nichi insisted the rumors were all "British propaganda." Others printed them as true...
Comedian Wynn followed with 15 minutes of foolish talk. The damper audience began heckling him, got better and louder at it. Comedian Wynn got mad, made the wrong remark: "Some of you fellows think you are funnier than I am, so you tell the jokes and I'll do the laughing." He escaped the ultimate bird only by giving the audience what it wanted-Tap Dancer Betty Bruce, brunette Singer Jane Froman, acrobats, eight chorines from Comedian Wynn's Boys and Girls Together. After that, the audience laughed at Comedian Wynn's foolery...