Word: louders
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...next war is to be the drawing card the last one was, it will have to be made more genteel. There are several trenches in the vicinity of Verdun which could well stand being done over, and the cries are growing steadily louder that the kitchen police be prevented from continuing in their present deplorable ignorance of crepes suzette. Even America will come across with less reluctance if it can forget the horror of it. When the Yanks got off the boats at Brest and step into the chromium roadsters there to meet them they will not forget the farseeing...
...fact that we now ask for arms equality with a little louder voice," twittered the Chancellor nervously, "does not mean that we propose to draw the sabre and bang it on the table...
...filled with tense notables. Unable to get seats, Senators Harrison and Barkley stood with William Green of the A. F. of L. in the centre doorway, listening. At 12:01, as on any other decision day, Chief Justice Hughes began reading the majority opinions. But his voice was far louder than usual, far more dramatic. Lest his audience be held too long on tenterhooks, he summarized the decisions first: Congress' right to abrogate the gold clause in private contracts was upheld; citizens were denied the privilege of suing the Government in the Court of Claims for payment...
...guided legislators along the road he chose. After a time when they began to bray in protest, he allowed them to nibble his succulent provender. The New Deal has now created some 70,000 Federal jobs outside the Civil Service and cries of "too much patronage" are now rising louder & louder. But hungry Congressmen remain unsatisfied. Last week as prelude to a House caucus on patronage six Democrats headed by Speaker Byrns marched into the White House to inform President Roosevelt that Representatives were not getting proper service on their requests for patronage, that one prominent official had actually insulted...
...loveliest that New Yorkers have heard this season. He swayed excitedly from side to side, made fierce faces at the players to bring out every last theatric effect. Scriabin's Divine Poem, stunningly bombastic, compelled an ovation for the hard-working Clevelander. But Rodzinski had still louder music: two entr'actes from Soviet Composer Dmitri Shostakovich's Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk...