Word: loudly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...real convention in St. Paul. The 100-odd delegates, most of whom as individualistic reporters had privately mocked the inanities of other people's conventions they had been sent to cover, behaved much the same as physicians or plumbers or politicians, gathered for an annual meeting. They talked loud about professional standards, damned ''company unions" and even found time to adopt a resolution for the immediate release of Tom Mooney. The most direct attack on the job problem was a recommendation that local Guild negotiations with publishers include such well-recognized union items as the closed shop...
...that compared to Mr. O'Brien he was a more fledgling, etc. etc. Following this, our own James Roosevelt '30 got up to make his contribution to the gathering: "If the gentleman from the Class of 1921 considers himself to be a fiedgling, what must I be?" Whereupon came loud and spontaneous cries from the back of the room...
...plot is slender. It tells of an African villager who chooses a bride, succumbs to the evil magic of another less comely party ("the witch woman"), lies unconscious until a witch doctor restores him. Three African drummers slap out the only accompaniment, sometimes weirdly soft, sometimes fiercely loud. Abdul Assen, the witch doctor, had polite audiences in chills last week as he groveled over the prostrate bridegroom, chanted and yelped his frenzied incantations. The bridegroom, a wide-smiling Negro with a large gold tooth, was Asadata Dafora Horton, Kykunkor's librettist, composer, choreographer and director. He is a native...
...five days and five nights last week the 250,000 citizens of loud, lusty Memphis, Tenn. knocked off all work, played host to the bankers and businessmen, the planters and politicians, the farmers and their field hands. Negroes, white trash and riffraff of the entire mid-Mississippi Valley in one grand, rip-snorting jubilee-the fourth annual Cotton Carnival.* Richmond, Atlanta and New Orleans had had their days, would have them again. But last week was Memphis's and on her was every eye in Dixie. Memphis, where De Soto built his river barges 79 years before anybody heard...
...zero hour 150,000 words of controversy were dumped upon the public. Vitriolic bomb shells of recrimination burst in the camps of Johnson and Darrow while Sinclair's trench mortar added to the loud discord. By and large the U. S. took the bombardment without flinching...