Word: loudnesses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year's quintet had also toppled California, trounced Notre Dame. Added incentive to action was the announcement that, for the first time, the U. S. will pick an Olympic team to vie with Uruguayans, Bulgarians, Turks and other basketeers next summer. Best explanation for the enthusiasm was the loud-mouthed rivalry between the Midwest's zone defense and wide-open play, the East's man-for-man defense and more cautious offense...
Mississippi's loud, stubby Senator Theodore Gilmore ("The Man") Bilbo invited the entire State to a housewarming at his new 27-room "Dream House" at Poplarville. Curious, hungry Mississippians wolfed the Senator's sardines, crackers and grapejuice, bugged their eyes at five gaudy bathrooms including an orchid-&-black...
With each change of opera there was some new singer. German Baritone Eduard Habich was the tipsy, loud-mouthed father in Hänsel und Gretel. Baritone Julius Huehn from Pittsburgh made a sonorous herald for Lohengrin. Chase Baromeo of the late Chicago Civic Opera was the High Priest in Aïda. Chilean Carlo Morelli went through the customary antics as Marcello...
Died, Walter Liggett, writer (Bawdy Boston, The Rise of Herbert Hoover), muckraking editor of the Midwest American, loud & bitter foe of Minnesota's Governor Floyd B. Olson; of bullet wounds inflicted by gunmen as he stepped out of his car; in Minneapolis. Last month he was acquitted of a charge of sodomy against an 18-year-old girl after he had branded the charge a frameup by Olson forces. After the shooting police arrested a night club proprietor and a onetime liquor runner, charged them with the murder...
Just then a loud yawn was heard coming from the top of the four poster: "What's all the fuss about?" asked the Dormouse in a hoarse, feeble voice and slowly opening its eyes. But before anyone could answer: "Oh, no, I, I wasn't sleeping. I heard every word you fellows were saying. And you're making too much fuss about the Oath Bill anyway...