Word: loudly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Broad Jump. A tiny Japanese flag was posted 26 ft., 2½-in. from the takeoff. That was to mark the world's record of Chuhei Nambu, but Nambu could not reach his flag last week. Loud "Banzais" came from a crowd of Japanese sailors in the north grandstand when he got near it with 24 ft., 5¼ in. A tall Negro from the University of Iowa, Edward L. Gordon, got closer and won with 25 ft. ¾ in. It was the first major event that did not set a record...
...trumpeters on a turret above the stadium blew a loud salute. Outside the stadium, a field gun went off ten times. From an urn over the main gate of the stadium there was a burst of flame, pale in the bright afternoon, from the Olympic torch that will burn for 16 days...
...Pretty?" The day might have ended quietly for the Conference had not loud shouts in Italian and French been heard from an adjoining room in which the 43-year-old Inter-Parliamentary Union (which has no official status whatever) was holding its 25th Congress...
...went to Europe, won a million dollars at Monte Carlo and saw the Folies Bergere. The first Ziegfeld Follies appeared in 1907-08. Critic Percy Hammond called it "a loud & leering orgy of indelicacy & suggestiveness." Subsequent Follies helped to make Ziegfeld a millionaire, "glorified" a succession of beautiful women,* including Justine Johnstone, Olive Thomas, Marilyn Miller (he called hers "the most beautiful form in the world"), Yvonne Taylor ("she wore the most beautiful tights"), Mae Murray, Lilyan Tashman, Ina Claire, Billie Dove, Mary Hay, Nita Naldi, Marion Davies, Peggy Hopkins Joyce. He was responsible for the fame of Will Rogers...
...Midwest, Secretary of War Hurley, dapper and dashing, went to Columbus, Ohio last week to address the Republican State Convention. His speech, like Secretary Mills' in Boston fortnight ago, was a master text, hall-marked by the White House for lesser G. 0. Partisans to echo on the stump. Loud of voice, wide of gesture, Secretary Hurley demonstrated the approved party method of defending President Hoover and attacking Governor Roosevelt. Excerpts...