Word: loudnesses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That evening some 4,000 grimly serious actors, not yet informed of the agreement, swarmed to Hollywood's barnlike American Legion Stadium with minds made up about how to mark the strike ballots they were handed at the door. Loud were the cheers when President Montgomery, dog-tired but icy-cool, announced the settlement. Since formal contracts had yet to be signed, and other producers, notably Warner Brothers, had yet to be brought to terms, a strike vote was taken. Bandy-legged Boris Karloff hustled around with a ballot box which he somehow managed to make suggest an infernal...
...plashy banks of the Housatonic River in northern Connecticut one morning last week, two fishermen looked up with scowls as a hiker with a rucksack and a brown duffle shaped like an oversized golf bag broke through the woods with a noise loud enough to scare every trout within 50 yd. Abashed, the hiker tiptoed downstream, dropped his burden in a small clearing. While the two fishermen watched, first in irritation then in amazement, he took a red rubbery roll of cloth and a heap of small sticks from his duffle, put the sticks together in a simple frame, shoved...
...offered for approval by a plebiscite, they wrote a clause specifically withholding suffrage from women. Thus, if the women voted Yes in the plebiscite, they would be voting to disenfranchise themselves; if they voted No, they would be voting against freedom for the Philippines. Setting up a loud clamor, they finally got a clause inserted that would restore suffrage to literate women of 21 or over if they could muster 300,000 affirmative votes at a plebiscite within two years after the Constitution was adopted...
...Kipling?" I Can Get It for You Wholesale, Author Weidman's first novel, partly answers his question. The East Side Jews he writes about with such authority are almost enough to tie an old-fashioned U. S. stomach into Nazi knots. Manhattanites who brush elbows every day with loud, cheap slickers like Author Weidman's hero, who tells the tale himself, may find the story much too true to be entertaining. Others will give it a good hand for a smart piece of work smartly done...
...with rats. Every small section had its band of ten to 25 mongrels-all sizes, shapes and colors-which woke to fighting fury when a dog from another section tried to trespass on its territory. They littered the narrow streets with their droppings, were eternally underfoot, made the night loud with their yapping. But it was part of the Turks' religion to be kind to animals, and the dogs had been there since Constantinople was Byzantium...