Word: loudly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Winding through heavy Sunday traffic back to the Capital, President Hoover saw an automobile careening dangerously toward him, swerve by. He heard a loud crash. He told his chauffeur to stop, got out, went back along the road, found that the White House machine in which his Secretary Lawrence Richey and other friends were riding had been smashed by an automobile driven by a Mrs. Carolyn Lone Beach of Brooklyn, N. Y. None was hurt. The President drove...
...Rheims as part of a convoy to a supply train, he and a comrade managed to slip by the sentries into the Cathedral. Soon German shells began to burst in the ruined nave. Said his comrade: "It's not that I'm afraid, you understand, but I hate loud noises." On his return to Paris, Hero 'T' became successively clerk, bicyclist, male nurse; was often in trouble, sometimes in the guardhouse, oftener in the infirmary or some soft job. Says Author Deval: "A soldier may be as ignorant as he likes as to whether his heart is located...
...vocal cords, took away her voice. She underwent an operation which left her a croak little better than a grackle's. She underwent the knife again, went back to Valencia, lived outdoors, burned countless candles to La Virgen Maria and waited months, not speaking out loud. When the voice did come back it was some time before she dared test it. Again she went to Italy, cared for the wounded in War hospitals. It was in 1919 that she returned to the Metropolitan, a greater artist than before. Since then she has had a succession of successes as Fiora...
...43rd thug-killing of the year. But the newsgatherers, camera men and police who soon congregated in the pedestrian tunnel were profoundly impressed, agitated, angry. For this corpse had not been a gangster, or a policeman, or a mere citizen. He was a Newspaper Reporter - Alfred ("Jake") Lingle, the loud and powerful Chicago Tribune's seasoned expert on Chicago crime, a man acquainted with under-worldlings from the meanest racetrack tipster to Alphonse ("Scarface") Capone himself, whom he visited for the Tribune winter before last at the Capone estate in Miami Beach, Fla. From the Tribune's tower...
...Fully as loud are the clamors of those who oppose the second possible development. They picture Harvard as a future real estate development with all the streets named "Main Street", all the suburban dwellers called "Babbits", all the students "brothers under the skin", and all the inmates of various, races, creeds, economic standing, social preeminence, intellectual interests and oddities--in fact all kinds and characters forced into one big family, which is supposed, unlike most families, to be free from dissension. The great cry is aimed at the supposed sacrifice of "individuality". This point of view is that...