Word: noisier
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...emergent new nations of Africa, the Red Chinese were determined not to be outdone by the Russians. In Moscow, Nikita Khrushchev had given Touré a new trade agreement and a massive palace for his embassy. But in Peking, every crowd was a little bigger, every rally a little noisier...
...Reader" was referring to the unusual Vatican annulment of the President's first marriage, which let him marry Lima Socialite Clorinda Málaga a fortnight ago (TIME, June 30). In a country famed for its firmness in the Catholic faith, the second marriage stirred a storm -the noisier because the citizens were not told the ground for the annulment...
...things liven up again. At that point Conductor Mitropoulos took over the dancer's role for himself, shrugging one shoulder grotesquely to the syncopated piano rhythm, splaying the fingers of his left hand to the spastic tempos. The music got more conventional in texture as it got noisier, but ultimately, sheer noise was sufficient: as the last, clubbing chord thundered out, the Philharmonic's subscribers gasped, and then burst into applause...
First came a Jack the Ripper horror movie with Jack Palance and some blonde victims. Then it was quiet for Dr. Jekyll but Dr. Jekyll did not come. Then it was noisy. Then two identical brunettes in identical bathing suits came and it was noisier. But they just stood around. An assistant walked out with some chairs, unfolded a collapsible table, and then pointed to the wings. Suddenly dashing out, resplendent in white suit and a matching pink cumberbund tie and shirt set with a microphone behind him, was Dr. Jekyll...
Like a premature March squall, Tallulah Bankhead blew into Washington, D.C., and set up a noisier commotion than both Houses of Congress combined. Invited by Alabama's Democratic Representative Frank ("Everything's made for love") Boykin to testify on the capital's need for a civic auditorium, Alabamian Bankhead gave her blessing to the project, but begged off from appearing in a Valentine message to "Darling Congressman Boykin." Scrawled she: "Ten a.m. is an unprecedented time for a child of the grease paint to cope with the sandman." Since Tallulah would not go to Capitol Hill...