Word: loudnesses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...help the investigator. Frequently one or more newshawks provide most of the blood and sinew of an inquisition. They not only dig up original facts but stand at the committeeman's elbow helping him with suggestions during the cross examination. Behind Senator Black in the airmail investigation was loud, talkative Fulton Lewis Jr., a Hearstling who two years before had begun to ferret out airmail scandal. In the present investigation, the newshawk seen most frequently over Mr. Black's shoulder is dressy, hard-boiled Paul Y. Anderson, able correspondent for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Anderson's whole career...
...affect about 50,000 trucks, 100,000 buses. However, since every State but Delaware has some measure of motor carrier regulation, the new law will in effect do little more than stabilize an industry in which the big units heartily favor regulation. Though the railroads have been yowling long & loud for Federal control over their highway competitors, they are not expected to be greatly benefited by last week's enactment...
White I cannot comment on the reaction of New Yorkers to his column, I will conscientiously state that the lucidity of his reactions and his analysis and understanding of human nature are superb. If he has a fondness for loud clothes, he also faithfully observes what is currently deemed to be good taste in dress and offers his readers many valuable suggestions...
...people who cheer loudest when you succeed are those who throw pop bottles the hardest when you fail. . . . Loud cheers make heroes. Pop bottles make martyrs. ... I knew an old priest once. His hair was white, his face shone. ... I am listed as a famous home-runner, yet beside that obscure priest, who was so good and so wise, I never got to first base...
...still uttering his two-hour discourse, they left their Korps house, proceeded with levity through the streets of Heidelberg and noisily entered a restaurant full of devout listeners to the broadcast, one Saxo-Borussian pretending to use a champagne bottle as a trumpet. Thirdly, the Saxo-Borussians, amid much loud discussion, made a distinction between the correct way of eating asparagus and Adolf Hitler's way of eating asparagus...