Word: loudly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...many in the House were less willing to put President Roosevelt above the lawmaking power of Congress. Gibed Republican Leader Snell: "We'd better abolish Congress and go home." So loud grew the cries of dissent that Speaker Garner, a good retreater, decided to put his dictatorship plan over until the next session...
...take marriage with Sara Powell Haardt, two and one-half years ago, to mellow him. At 52 Editor Mencken is little changed-stocky, slovenly dressed, wearing the best cravats that 50? can buy, still fond of draught beer and Baltimore seafood. He enjoys playing the piano with the loud pedal pushed down, singing bass in his cups, playing the fiddle Saturday nights in a parlor orchestra. But he keeps more regular hours now, leaves Baltimore less often. He reads The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn once a year, enjoys talking philosophy and theology with Baltimore priests. For shrewd Bishop James Cannon...
...Loud cries of "Outrage!" "Scandal!" went up in the Press at the House's failure to economize on veterans expenses. The technical defense was that no cuts could be made until the substantive laws which required this total appropriation had been modified...
...incredibly loud Denver Post blared out last week with the biggest news story of its career. Streaming across eight columns, three big, black banner lines roared: FREDERICK G. BONFILS, EDITOR AND PUBLISHER OF THE POST, DIES AT HOME EARLY THURSDAY Wide black rules bordered every column. The whole front page except one column, which carried the weather report and Arthur Brisbane, was crammed with news of the death, surrounding a large picture of Publisher Bonfils. PRESIDENT HOOVER DEEPLY GRIEVED . . . BONFILS MADE POST A GREAT PAPER. . . . COLORADO HAS LOST ITS GREATEST CITIZEN. There were six more pages of pictures and testimonials...
...system and perhaps we can not hope to satisfy everyone. Changes may not be justified if they are sponsored by only a few when they are sponsored by only a few when the majority seem to be serious in their satisfaction. The few are always ready to make a loud noise but often this common deserves only what it provokes it, a smile...