Word: loudly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Significance. Although a phrase in the new treaty defines as one of its objects "the maintenance of peace and tranquility," few statesmen could construe its major clauses otherwise than a loud war-threat to nations which might conceivably wish to attack Italy or Albania: a tiny Adriatic republic, mountainous, pestilence-ridden, and shaken early this year by a devastating earthquake. Since Italy can expect no substantial aid from so puny and impotent an ally, it became interesting to speculate on why the pact signed last week constitutes "one of the greatest strokes of diplomacy yet achieved" by Il Duce...
...BLOODY POET-Desider Kostolanyi-Macy-Masius ($2.50). In a parade of purple, the emperors of Rome go through the pages of old histories with the sound of loud horns. In the annals of Tacitus and those of medieval chroniclers, these men are present; their frail lusts and meagre rascality grown enormous through the grandeur of the empire which they destroyed. In writing about them, it is hard to make them merely human; some aura of the supernatural clings to the absurd magnificence of their palaces and their crimes. Now the wildest of them all, Nero, the Bloody Poet, is imagined...
...stoop to flatter a fool. In that apothegm is the key to the understanding of his character. A big, burly, slightly flabby man, he looks for all the world like an overdressed butcher or a well-to-do farmer, an oversized mustache accentuating his incongruous appearance. His voice is loud, deep, hearty. In a stolid English way he is a friendly man, although he has few intimates. He is somewhat downright in his opinions and there is no nonsense about either them or him. In short, he is a typical product of Victorianism: ultraconservative, even to attending church regularly...
...short time ago France and Jugoslavia solemnly signed a treaty of military alliance. For Jugoslavs it was a guarantee against aggression by Italy. Much relieved, they gave vent to open anti-Italian agitation. Long and loud were the cries that the treaty had "put Italy in her place" and had "shattered Mussolini's aggressive aims in the Balkans...
...clowns can match Ringling's. Perhaps it was for this reason that the Chicago Civic Opera chose Pagliacci for the debut of Baritone Robert Ringling,** son of the late Circus Proprietor Charles Ringling, nephew of the living John. He made a stout, pleasant "Tonio," not half so loud-mouthed as his size portended. The audience liked him, liked, too, Soprano Olga Kargau, wife of a Chicago merchant, who was a new "Nedda...