Word: loudnesses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...difficult question to answer," replied Sir Charles, "but I should say that roughly the farther you get from here the looser the morals are." (Explosions of loud laughter...
When Lenglen turned professional, tennis authorities were loudly indignant. They anticipated immediate trouble when other amateurs followed her example. Promoter Pyle went bankrupt, Suzanne Lenglen retired and professional tennis was in the doldrums when it was rescued by Miss Lenglen's onetime trainer, William O'Brien, now No. 1 impresario of the game. Since 1931, his tennis tours have grossed $750,000. Among the 14 onetime amateurs he has induced to play for him have been Francis T. Hunter, Vincent Richards, Henri Cochet, George Lott. Major attraction of the O'Brien troupe has always been Tilden...
...Forty-eight-year-old William F. ("Willie") Hoppe, grey-haired boy wonder of Billiards in 1898, 15-time world champion at 18.2 balkline billiards, three-time champion at 18.1 balkline billiards, current cushion caroms champion, in a challenge match against loud & confident Welker Cochran, to whom he was runner-up in the tournament at Chicago last November (TIME, Dec. 2): the world's championship at three-cushion billiards (in which the cue ball must hit at least three cushions before touching the second object ball), a title for which he has campaigned diligently since...
When the rumor went around six weeks ago that Leopold Stokowski was resigning from the Philadelphia Orchestra, no one took much notice because the fair-haired conductor has upset Philadelphia before with loud cries of "Wolf!" Last week the rumor became fact. Though for once he appeared to have no bone to pick with the Orchestra board, Stokowski refused a new three-year contract, announced that he would return for 20 concerts next season, but that he wanted the rest of his time for research...
...long been running free. This was the University of Pittsburgh, whose chancellor is pale, Messianic John Gabbert Bowman and whose home is a handsome Gothic skyscraper, in the heart of Pittsburgh, which will cost $10,000,000 before it is finished. Pitt first got into trouble by firing a loud liberal named Ralph E. Turner. When an A. A. U. P. committee investigated Pitt, it found that Professor Turner was only the latest of many liberals whom Chancellor Bowman had forced out (TIME, March 4). Dr. Bowman, the committee believed, had sold out to rich, reactionary Pittsburghers. A committee...