Word: loudly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Perpetually hampered by the fragility of the normal human beings with whom circumstance compels him to associate, Primo Carnera, 269-lb. Venetian prizefighter, was last week inconvenienced more sadly than ever before. Scheduled for Oct. 1 was his fight against loud, 203-lb. Jack Sharkey of Boston, still the foremost U. S. contender for the heavyweight championship despite poor fights against Champion Max Schmeling and Middleweight Mickey Walker. Eight days before the fight, Sharkey inspected his left hand, discovered that his third and little fingers were slightly swollen at the knuckle. Convinced that such a hand was no fit instrument...
...Karamazov, for a German spectator, is sound and exciting and far more valuable than the apologetic realism of the cinema which might be considered its U. S. counterpart, An American Tragedy. Good shot: Dmitri Karamazov (Fritz Kortner) laughing, when he finds Gruschenka (Anna Sten) at the roadhouse, so loud that everyone else in the place laughs also...
...cheer.'' In Mexico City chauffeurs devised a code of horn signals, added this U. S. innovation. One chauffeur was stopped by a policeman named Tomas Gonzalez, sharply reprimanded for a traffic violation. As the chauffeur drove away he stepped on the accelerator, made his horn issue a loud, vulgar noise. Tomas Gonzalez jumped on the car's running board, beat him dead...
...medal from Secretary Adams, a spasm of applause from 4,000 spectators. There was some confusion about the medal, for the name of Molla Bjursted Mallory, eight-time Woman's Champion, and of Mary K. Browne had unaccountably been left off the list. Richard Dudley Sears, in a loud burst of applause, shook hands four times, received his medal with patrician politeness. He made no great show of liking the ceremony but said he was glad he had come, against his doctor's advice, because "they only hold these things every 50 years and I may not be here...
When, on the advice of his Surgeon-General, President Hoover told the country: ''The public health has apparently never been better than it has been over the past six months" (TIME, Aug. 31), some commenting was to be expected. Last week some came from New York, taking loud exception...