Word: louders
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...sounds of strife grew louder and more intelligible, passengers perceived that the words "pay up" . . . dime . . . fare . . . tryin' to get away with something, huh? . . . No I didn't . . . paid before . . ." emanated at regular intervals from the conductor's sanctum...
...free, white & 21, a member of the Civilian Conservation Corps. Within a few months I must leave the Corps, when my service time-limit expires. ... I am a cartoonist ; naturally my work speaks louder than my words...
...Christian. Dr. Kagawa, soft-faced, almost blind "Greatest Christian" of Japan, preaches economic and moralistic doctrines which today are completely at variance with those of Japan's rulers. Like other Japanese Christians, he has been largely silenced during the war in China. But his presence in Japan is louder than his silence. Christian Kagawa was expected to join the conference in Madras last week as a delegate...
...Collected Poems (Harper, $2.50). With her rich literary background and varied social experience, she writes as one who feels that she is expected to say something rich and varied. Her poems are stopgaps for silence-what their author apparently feels would be an embarrassing silence. But since silence speaks louder than stopgaps, her poems give a net impression of saying nothing. Her lyrics, whether addressed to Nature or to Man, all share the same insufficiency. All are the work of a worried, earnest, poetical nondescript...
...brilliant, stubborn bureaucrat. As chaste in his personal life as Atatürk was lecherous, he is violently nationalist. He represented Turkey at two crucial international conferences at Lausanne and Montreux, getting for Turkey virtually all she wanted. French and British statesmen railed at him but the louder their demands, the deafer Ismet Pasha became. A year ago he was forced out of the Prime Minister's office. Some said he was too pro-Russian for Ataturk. The true reason was probably mutual irritation despite mutual respect...