Word: loudnesses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their frantic attempts to bait the independent vote, which amounts to 600,000, both candidates have sung loud the song of progressivism. Mr. Curley boasts the support of the A.F. of L. and other state labor groups and accuses his opponent of an anti-labor record as state representative from 1923 to 1928. Mr. Saltonstall defends himself by pointing to the bulk of progressive legislation enacted from 1928 to 1936, when he was Speaker of the House, and by claiming that the labor legislation he opposed previously was either unsound or beneficial to some favored bloc. These facts serve...
...hollered loud enough for everyone to hear that I was going to take the fighters out back and referee the bout. They looked sort of worried and one admittede he didn't want to fight out back. The other thought he saw his chance to stay in the game, and he said he didn't want to fight either...
...voices of politicians grew loud in the land, crowding even swing off the air, radio listeners last week did not hear two opponents debating (but not broadcasting) with poise and dignity from one platform in Marietta, Ohio. Republican Robert Alphonso Taft and Democrat Robert Johns Bulkley had agreed, while fighting for the latter's Senate seat, to hold at least six debates in the good old Lincoln-Douglas tradition...
Groups of students emerging from eating or beer parties there have shown a tendency to stand about in the Eliot courtyard carrying on conversations in loud voices, with resulting disturbance to all those living in the vicinity. It was further said that the disorderly conduct both in the grill and outside in the court reached the point where some action was felt necessary...
Columbus attended a college that was, comparatively speaking, very much more advanced and enlightened than Harvard. And he was thrown out. He was thrown out because he was loud-mouthed, arrogant, cock-sure, unwilling to study and opposed to the methods of scientific investigation...