Word: noisier
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Berlin an even noisier welcome awaited the Boesses. So ugly was the crowd in front of the great Charlottenburg station that police officials persuaded the Mayor to continue on to the station near the Zoological Gardens. Another crowd, just as loud, waited there, booing industriously. Forming a flying wedge, a cordon of leather-shakoed Schupos* hustled Bürgermeister Boess and wife into the station master's office, then spirited them away through a back door to their home...
Hollis Pifer remembers his mother taking him to the railing, calling, "Save my child." He remembers being thrown into the arms of a sailor aboard another noisier, dirtier boat, watching wide-eyed as the San Juan sank, while horror-stricken passengers and crew swam about in oily water. "Oh, grandma," said little Hollis next day in San Francisco, "the ship sank...
...younger generation is certainly no more sinful than any that have preceded it," declared Gipsy Smith, famous Evangelist, when interviewed yesterday by a CRIMSON reporter. "But they may be a little noisier about...
Bull. For four years, Wall Street has been noisier than ever before in its history. It has seen a stream of gold pouring in from abroad. Between 1923 and 1928, the U. S. exported gold worth $500,000,000, but imported $1,000,000,000. Each $1 of gold in a bank reserve means a potential $13 of credit. In four years, the U. S. in this way alone added $6,500,000,000 to its credit resources. It could finance a building boom, a Florida boom, vast instalment selling, new highways, new factories. It had enough credit to support...
...Cardinals' locker-room it was not much noisier than in the Yankees'. They subdued their rejoicing until young Manager Rogers Hornsby had adjusted a black necktie and gone quietly away to bury his mother, whose dying message had been: "Stay...