Word: loudly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the Cherry Sisters came to town, 30 years ago, loud was the rejoicing in poolrooms. The Cherry Sisters were blowsy, humorless young actresses who sang sentimental ballads completely off key, in dead earnestness. They appeared behind a serviceable net that covered the stage, and it was entirely au fait for the audience to hurl apples, tomatoes, potatoes, cabbages, other ingredients of a typical New England boiled dinner, throughout the Cherry Sisters appearance. In every town that the Cherry Sisters played, it was an invariable custom for the editor of the local paper to review their act with a column...
...balmy Havana last week many clear-skinned Latin ladies and a few from the U. S.j Canada, grew indignant and loud about something which seems nebulous to most people most of the time?Nationality...
Lenora ("Snorks") Wodehouse, daughter of British Funnywriter Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, gave a party at "Wode House" in London. By way of something new, music from the ballroom orchestra was picked up by a microphone, reproduced on a loud speaker in a room where refreshments were served. Present at the party were a couple newly engaged. They slipped away at refreshment time, found a snuggly nook behind the potted palms in the ballroom where the orchestra had been playing. Suddenly in the refreshment room where a hundred guests were dining, the loud speaker began to broadcast what was being said...
...white and liver pointer bitch stopped short crossing a field and stood with her head turned into the wind, toward a patch of scrub oak 20 yards away. A moment later, a bevy of quail slanted into the air and someone blew a whittle. A shot gun went off, loud in the quiet fields, and there was a sudden babble of men's voices. "Did you see her on that last find? . . . As great a bitch as ever won the National...
...Haven last week members of the college community and alumni listened skeptically to President James Rowland Angell's long promised remarks on the House Plan (TIME, Feb. 24). Suddenly the audience burst into loud cheering. President Angell had announced that Associate Professor Dudley French (Yale 1910) would not resign from the English faculty, as had been previously stated (TIME, Dec. 30), but would take charge of the first unit of the quadrangle system. some three or four years hence. Two situations which engendered dispute at Yale this year are: 1) the House Plan, and 2) the resignation of popular...