Word: loudest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Loudest and busiest campaigner for his Party's cause is Republican Vice Presidential Nominee William Franklin Knox. Last week, before a quiet audience in Los Angeles' Shrine Auditorium, he had reached the point in his remarks in which he declared that New Dealers were no longer as interested in Karl Marx as in the Literary Digest poll. Shouted the Chicago Daily News Publisher: "The Administration . . . is no longer trying to reorganize America; it is just trying to get votes...
...Loudest and most lasting of all political feuds in the last half of the 19th Century was that between Republicans James Gillespie ("The Man from Maine") Elaine and New York's dandified, witty Roscoe Conkling. It started in 1866 when Representative Elaine accused Representative Conkling of having unfairly edited his remarks in the Congressional Globe, forerunner of the Congressional Record. It continued unabated when both graduated from the House to the Senate. It became nationally significant with the formation of Conkling's clique known as the "Stalwarts" which bitterly opposed every move of Elaine's following...
Parade. First item on the program was the parade. The Olympic Bell tolled and into the stadium marched 5,000 athletes. Leading, because their country started the Olympic Games in 776 B. C., were the Greeks. Next, at the head of the German alphabetical list were the Egyptians. Loudest applause went to Austrians who gave the Nazi salute, to goose-stepping Bulgarians, to a Swiss flag-bearer who did juggling tricks. English athletes got few cheers. Next to last, the U. S. team members saluted Realmleader Hitler by placing their straw hats over their hearts. The crowd shouted, whistled, clapped...
Relay. Last week's opening ceremonies were the last stage in a concentrated year-long ballyhoo which made the 1932 Olympics in Los Angeles, loudest previous sports event in history, seem, by comparison, as quiet as a race between two trained fleas around the brim of a felt hat. Climax was the Torch Relay from Olympia to Berlin which started fortnight ago, after the sun's rays had been used to kindle a fire in the ruins of the Temple of Zeus. At Paracin, Yugoslavia, last week, the flame went out when a runner got a defective torch...
...Loudest sound in history is believed to be the explosion of the island of Krakatoa in 1883. Physicists estimate the noise of that cataclysm at 190 decibels...