Word: loudnesses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...life so that his daily column can be, and is, his consuming interest. He has rejected radio offers as fat as $5,000 for a few-minute broadcast because he feared his column might suffer. He quit drinking long ago, likes lots of candy and indulges a passion for loud clothes which first manifested itself at the age of 8 when he pedaled a velocipede down the streets of Gallipolis,* wearing a plug hat. He once brought 16 bottles of perfume from France for his friends, kept them...
...buyers of a stolen necklace; police found nothing, because "Cammi" dropped the necklace in his soup, calmly went on with his dinner. But when in 1913 "Cammi" Grizzard stole the Mayer pearls, worth ?123,000, he had to depend on unreliable allies to help dispose of them, and loud-mouthed Leisir Gutwirth gave him away. Amateur Detectives Brandstatter and Quadratstein led Gutwirth on, posed as buyers until they got in touch with Scotland Yard. Coached by detectives, a French diamond merchant carried on intricate negotiations with the thieves, bargained and made conditions of sales like a diplomat at a peace...
After a wildlife enthusiast had waited days in an outer office to see U. S. Biological Survey Chief Jay Norwood ("Ding") Darling, the caller brought out a wild turkey call, sounded it long & loud. Out from his inner sanctum sprang Chief Darling. "I was exceedingly busy," he explained. "But when that turkey call sounded it was too much...
...subject of utility holding companies nearly everyone had had his say. Franklin Roosevelt had asked for what practically amounted to their abolition. Powermen and investors had wrung their hands in loud anguish. Senator Wheeler had favorably reported the bill. Secretary Roper's Business Advisory Council had counseled moderation. Senator Norris had lectured the Senate with giant charts showing the tentacles of the power octopus. Young Legalites Corcoran and Cohen, who drafted the bill, had given their advice privily in the cloakrooms. The whole Senate had enjoyed ten days of debate. Wiseacres sensed that 67 proposed amendments would soon...
Last week Father Coughlin reached Manhattan in his political barnstorming tour, made a loud speech to a $17,000 audience in Madison Square Garden (see p. 17). Next day a stern voice in Massachusetts rasped: "All those disturbing voices, the shouting, yelling and screaming, are so unbecoming to anyone who occupies the place of a teacher in Christ's Church that even the quality of their voices betrays them. They are hysterical...