Word: loudly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...acquittal two years ago of his subject Mrs. Marie Jensen, who had killed her husband with an axe. Penitent, Mrs. Jensen not only confessed her crime but begged the local jury to convict her. They, knowing Mr. Jensen, insisted on acquitting the self-confessed murderess, who burst into loud sobs. To help soothe her, King Haakon started a "sympathy fund" for Mrs. Jensen by contributing 500 kroner ($133) from his royal purse. The extenuating circumstances: Mr. Jensen told his wife with gruesome gusto that he had killed her two children in the woods, whereupon Mrs. Jensen split his head...
...ditched, it was explained, because he did not favor the Roosevelt candidacy. Quickly the anti-Roosevelt battalions rallied to Mr. Shouse's support, charging that Governor Roosevelt was guilty of bad faith. Al Smith vehemently declared: "A principle is at stake?the principle of keeping your word." James Farley, loud chief-of-staff of the Roosevelt forces, boomed out "pooh-poohs," claimed he had the majority necessary to elect Senator Walsh. A friendly gavel would greatly help the Roosevelt candidacy...
Decision to take this radical step was not Manager Farley's. He had called a "pep meeting" for Roosevelt leaders. Bruce Kremer and Senator Wheeler, both of Montana, began to urge a change in the rules to help their candidate. Senator Huey Long, Louisiana's "Kingfish," delivered a loud yawp for the same thing, swung the meeting completely off its balance. Josephus Daniels of North Carolina and Senator Hull of Tennessee chimed in. Manager Farley lost control of the meeting and the Roosevelt movement passed momentarily into the little hands of little men from the South and West. The meeting...
Senator Lester Jesse Dickinson of Iowa, temporary chairman of the Republican National Convention, whammed with his gavel to quiet the vast babble that was filling the flag-hung Chicago Stadium. He had "keynoted" the convention the day before in loud, oldtime partisan style (TIME, June 20). Now in order were several more perfunctory pieces of business before the main (and equally perfunctory) acts of the meeting could be performed...
...Cinemactress Bennett is unable to make a loud scream. When called upon to do so, she employs a professional screamer, Miss Alice Doll, who screams also for Ruth Chatterton, Kay Francis...