Word: loudly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Those who have accused Mr. John D. Rockefeller Jr. of inconsiderateness, selfishness, because the loud though melodious tones of the carillon which he donated to the Park Avenue Baptist Church disturbed their holiday slumbers (TIME, Dec. 7) do not number among them August Heckscher, philanthropist. Moved to characteristic benignancy by Mr. Rockefeller's carillon, Mr. Heckscher made a proposal to the Mayor of New York. He would like to give a carillon to the city. Indeed, if the city would build a tower for the purpose in Central Park, he would order the bells forthwith. He said: "The flexibility...
...curtain went up to the traditional accompaniment of loud tapping on the floor behind the scenes. The first two acts were set in a pleasant home at Auteuil. The last act was set in the dining room of a bourgeois home at Nangis. The stage settings were as good as the average small play; if anything, a little better...
...little grey-haired widow, Mrs. Bessie Ellinger, Janitress of three Manhattan tenements, heard loud cries in one of her hallways, rushed in to find a quivering taxi-driver being beaten by three bandits. Moved by the wretch's groans, she fell upon his attackers from behind. They fled to the empty cab but Bessie Ellinger leaped on the running board. Holding on with her arm through the window of the cab door while the knaves pounded her hand and twisted her fingers to make her let go, she drew a police whistle from her apron pocket and blew...
...which it is blessed. He is aware, if his polish is not sadly at fault, that the art of playing with an infant is to amuse without exciting it; to lull it into a state of somnolence, and, after it is asleep, to walk on tiptoes and refrain from loud talk, from playing the phonograph...
...splendid for a baby, and a noise when it is going to sleep will promote its future. It was so stated last week by Sir Harry E. Bruce-Porter, London specialist in children's diseases. He explained that tickling makes babies laugh and thus develops their lungs; that loud sounds when they are composing themselves for slumber prepare them for "the rough and tumble of later life...