Word: outshouting
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...Lunches & Cadillacs. The Sinatra day usually begins about 10 a.m. with a mug of hot coffee and a grandiose scattering of transcontinental telephone calls. A dozen people crowd around him as the makeup-man goes to work, all trying to outshout each other and a blaring radio. Off to the set in a bevy of Cadillacs, where the mob grows to 50 or 100 until Frank suddenly stands alone against a sky-blue set and moves his mouth expressively, while his voice drifts out of a distant amplifier. At the first break he piles into a box lunch, then takes...
...American Medical Association. Listed as "top spender" under the Lobby Registration Act, the AMA spread $2 million and 55 million propaganda leaflets last year in the fight against the President's national-health program. With the largest delegation and the most envied slush fund in Washington, organized medicine can outshout you and your neighbor combined, through the echo may not get beyond the committee room...
...honky-tonk piano-to protest, to object to rulings, to object to rulings on objections, to object to rulings on objections to rulings. Fortnight ago, Harold Medina, who had often talked as if he had had enough, acted at last. When the Communists' lawyers tried to outshout him, as they had so often done before, Medina peremptorily ordered them to "sit down," and had marshals see that they complied. "Your field day is over," Medina snapped. In Manhattan's Federal Court, the eleven defendants (accused of conspiracy to teach the violent overthrow of the U.S.) looked stunned. Even...
...Franklin Roosevelt might have been able to outshout that call. But under F.D.R.'s absolute control of the party there had never been a chance for another real leader to rise to the surface of the Democratic Party. Harry Truman was clearly not such a man. So the rebels bayed frantically off in all directions in search of a winner-and succeeded in pulling the roof down about their ears...
...attract the masses: 1) "Red is the most successful and exciting color, so paint the joint red"; 2) "Crowd them together-they'll communicate the excitement through their elbows"; 3) "Keep the prices reasonable, the liquor good and the food edible"; 4) "Make the acts loud enough to outshout the customers and short enough to give them a chance to drink...