Word: loudnesses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...third and fourth floors there were mirrors arranged so that a good view of the disaster could be had from the couch across the room, and the space in front of the windows was cleared to accomodate the speedy influx of curious. One floor had the makings of a loud speaker rigged up so that even the most minute scrape could be detected...
...young Jew named Aryeh Kotcher concealed something in his garments, got past a cordon of police without it being noticed, joined throngs of Jews praying at the ancient Wailing Wall. During a moment of silence, Aryeh Kotcher whipped out his shofar or ram's horn, let out a loud toot before police bore down and arrested him. Public shofar-blowing in Jerusalem is forbidden by law, for it infuriates Arabs, incites to riot.* But Jew Kotcher was happy because it was Yom Kippur, and his ritual blast on the horn had signalized, for Jews in Jerusalem as well...
...strike dragged on, marked only by such minor incidents as an abortive attempt by picketers to float propaganda balloons up past the studio windows, by the arrest of a few female strikers on such charges as shin-kicking, biting a police sergeant in the arm. In metropolitan theatres loud-lunged claques greeted the appearance of Fleischer cartoons with resounding boos. Fortnight ago C.A.D.U. announced that 13 cinema theatre circuits, including more than 500 theatres, had banned Fleischer cartoons pending settlement of the strike. Attorneys for Paramount Pictures, Fleischer distributor, promptly denied it. Fact was that some theatres had indeed banned...
Having proved by bacteriologic tests that the Hansa's sick actually suffered from typhoid, health officers threatened to raise a loud scandal if she took on any passengers for Europe. Rather than face this, Captain Lehmann quietly loaded freight and mail, took on an extra doctor and nurses, sailed with his sick straight back to Germany...
...year. Since then William Saroyan has been increasingly a problem child. Critics and readers alike have been impressed by his audacity, displeased by his bounding ego. His coldest dispraisers admit that he sometimes blurts out a suggestive truth; his warmest admirers wish occasionally that he would not shout so loud. Last week Saroyan's fourth book, Little Children, well illustrated his inclusive vices and his eclectic virtues. Of the 17 stories printed, perhaps half were worth it; five certainly did him credit, lent weight to the belief that the boy was growing older...