Word: loudly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Outside Congress: With his wife he lives in an old house on East Capitol Street. He entertains little, shuns society, keeps no car. Once he was taken up and lionized by Washington hostesses as a strange political specimen but when they found he did not roar loud enough for a third-party man they cooled toward him. One of his closest personal friends is Editor Eleanor ("Cissie") Patterson of the Washington Herald. Indulging in none of the usual amusements of Senators he leads a solitary intellectual life befitting his unique political status...
...Before a W. C. T. U. audience Democratic Governor George White of Ohio, longtime Dry and his State's "favorite son" for the presidential nomination, last week declared for a referendum on Prohibition, stirred loud "nays" with the declaration that the public was entitled to such a vote...
...Radio Loud Speaker...
Last week the Noise Abatement Commission set up its noise-making gadget (3A audiometer) in Riverdale Country School at Riverdale-on-Hudson, N. Y. For four days 200 boys, divided in two groups, were bothered during daily one-hour examinations by loud noise (70 decibels), moderate noise (55) and plain ordinary room noise (30 to 35). The boys grew tired, their work grew worse in proportion to the noise. Conditions were better than in the average city school, for no attempt was made to duplicate the sharp sudden noises of traffic at its peak. The Riverdale boys could endure monotonous...
Other elements of the Press, not sharing the Hearstpapers' reverence for Editor Brisbane, minimized the exploit in various ways. The Chicago Tribune Press Service gave it a loud horselaugh with a string of home-brewed dispatches purporting to come from Joliet, Santa Fe, Leavenworth and other prisons. These "dispatches" said that Loeb & Leopold, Winnie Ruth Judd, Albert Bacon Fall, Terry Druggan and other more or less celebrated convicts might help the baby-hunt...