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...sometimes conversational manner, the language is keyed low, but it has a subtle tension which gradually accumulates its tragic effect. There are few memorable, marmoreal phrases, none that would sound out of place in a sober and serious colloquy. Occasionally this quiet phrasing has a bite in it which louder words somehow lack. Nightingale is telling Malory how he ruined him by not giving him warning to sell stock he knew was going to crash...
...officeholder ever made the eagle scream louder than does Publisher Hearst in his recurrent calls to arms against the "yellow peril" of Japan, the "dominance" of Britain, the "venality" of France. Thoughtful Japanese regard Publisher Hearst with curious interest as another U. S. phenomenon to be studied and, if possible, comprehended. Britons talk among themselves of his "Anglophobia" but welcome him to their country where at Lincolnshire and Glamorgan, Wales, he maintains vast castles. This strategy of "soothing down" was brilliantly executed last year by Britain's great irrepressible Conservative, Winston Spencer Churchill, when Hearst Anglophobia was approaching...
...American Airways, then operating down the west coast of South America (TIME, July 22, 1929, et seq ). In recent weeks, with NYRBA encountering financial difficulties in its Argentine mail business, and with Pan-American invading the east coast between Paramaribo and Rio de Janeiro, the talk became louder...
Mindful of Ambassador Dawes's use of strong language, Senators immediately got the idea that the documents would make racy personal reading, called for them louder than ever. Reports spread that Ambassador Dawes had characterized one British proposal as "damned nonsense," that Secretary of State Stimson had referred to certain U. S. Senators as "pin-heads." Senator Vandenberg of Michigan, a Treaty proponent, insisted, however, that he had read the secret documents and had "had a hard time keeping awake...
...Department of J. P. Morgan & Co. His devices are small and portable. He sells them cheaply, will sell them more cheaply when he makes them in greater quantities. With one of his devices the speaker places the transmitter against any part of his head or throat; ensuing sounds are louder than if he spoke into the transmitter. A deaf person can put the receiver to any part of his skull or spine, and hear perfectly through his bones...