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Word: noisiest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...noisiest demonstration of all followed the reading of a message from Franklin Delano Roosevelt. By his own account, he chose his words with extreme care so that their meaning should be pikestaff plain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN: War on Straddlebugs | 8/21/1939 | See Source »

...Jimmy off on a long term for manslaughter and gives Fellow Prisoner Hood Stacey (George Raft) his opportunity to meet "the first really square guy I've ever known." It also touches off the most authentic and exciting prison picture since The Big House (1930), one of the noisiest sound tracks ever heard outside an airplane epic, enough slugging, shooting, bullyragging and brutality to make the most hardened criminal think twice before tangling with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jul. 31, 1939 | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

...22nd annual P.G.A. championship tournament, held last week at the Pomonok Country Club, almost within a trylon's length of the New York World's Fair, will long be remembered for: 1) the noisiest squabble in the history of the Professional Golfers Association; 2) the most exciting final waged between two bread-&-butter putters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Bread-&-Butter Putts | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

Object of this outburst, the like of which had not been seen in the Yard for many a year, was Harvard's tutoring schools. It was not the first attack on them.* But it was by all odds the noisiest and most determined. First step in the Crimson'?, campaign was to announce that it would no longer accept tutoring-school advertising. Loss to the Crimson: $2,000 a year. The Crimson proceeded to make sensational charges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Intellectual Brothels | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

...behave in church is something which has to be learned. Not only outsiders but often confirmed believers are appallingly ignorant of church etiquette. It is common practice among Anglicans and Episcopalians to "kneel" by simply bending their heads. Noisiest, least well-behaved of all Catholic churchgoers are those in Eastern Orthodox nations. For U. S. Catholics, and for such of their friends as might be interested, two useful guides to church behavior were circulated last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: MANNERS IN CHURCH | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

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