Word: loudest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Billy Rose's Diamond Horseshoe (20th Century-Fox) generally hits the dirt short of the peg; but it clangs out ringers whenever Betty Grable is pitching. It is the loudest and most energetic Grable vehicle in some time. As the Horseshoe's fastest filly, Miss Grable socks out A Nickel's Worth of Jive, dreams of mink coats in the manner of not-quite-a-lady in the dark, misleads and falls in love with young Dr. Dick Haymes, and demonstrates the fact that motherhood's extra pound or so of flesh can improve even...
...loudest propaganda machine in history, the German radio, stumbled through its death-scene to musical accompaniment, finally died away piecemeal. Berlin began broadcasting in spasms, grew fainter & fainter, fell silent without a sign...
That was too much for slack-chinned John Rankin, Mississippi's loudest demagogue. He hopped up and shouted...
...plans into operation, and London and other big cities will be filled with the sound of hideous music. Thousands will march through the streets holding up traffic for days. . . . Patriotic people will sing patriotic songs, and those who have done the least to win the war will sing the loudest. The people who are the least likely to sing songs and wave flags will be the sailors, soldiers and airmen. The people most likely to sing and to be entirely smothered in Union Jacks will be the black marketeers...
...loudest, most pained outbursts came from the President's own most ardent supporters. Those who had campaigned vigorously for Term IV on the basis of Roosevelt's foreign policy were suddenly ready to concede his fallibility. Cried the New Dealing New York Post's Edgar Ansel Mowrer: "Mr. Roosevelt's expediencies and compromises, his postponements of questions and evasions of issues are coming home to plague him from a dozen places-Britain, Belgium, Spain, Italy, Greece, Bulgaria, Poland, etc. Yet still unrepentantly he wisecracks, he postures, he ducks, he does everything but come clean and tell...