Word: loudnesses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...second time this week Harvard coaches have been the victims of bombing outrages at Soldiers Field. Last night when Coach Eddie Bradford stepped on the self-starter of his automobile, a loud crash burst on the stillness of the Cambridge evening. The whole rear-end of his Ford rose in the air and clouds of smoke enveloped the car: then a series of staccato machine-gun blasts; then silence...
Football breeds courage: where lesser men would have fled Bradford merely sat in his car, waiting for something else to happen. Then from the locker room a sound, very much like loud laughter, caused him to glare in that direction for a moment, then start his car again and drive very quickly from the field...
...down a gangplank from which to disembark without incurring the charge of sudden desertion of the ship. On top of all this comes, as we have pointed out, the impending convention of the country's Mad Hatters. Bad as things appear to be now, by January there may be loud, insistent cries for an American Guy Fawkes...
...loud crash yesterday afternoon on the steps descending from the main floor to the lower Treasure Room of the Harvard College Library startled students and officials in the vicinity. Investigation revealed that a large flat glass chandelier, which was suspended from the ceiling above the steps had fallen down. One of the Library secretaries, who was descending the stairs at the time, barely escaped injury, as the falling fixture missed hitting her by a matter of inches...
DESTROYING ANGEL-Norman Kline- Farrar & Rinehart ($2). Tangled domestic relations, entwined with murder, bring Detective Jones to Up-the-Hudson society. Loud boorishness relieves him of the case, but a hunch proving correct brings the solution and his recall...