Word: overloud
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...morning; yet their eyes will be sparkling with bright glee when the maid awakens them and they slip into silk for luncheon at the Princeton clubs. The ladies, not the players, dominate the day. Tiny rose faces, cheering madly, and yet not quite knowing Sweezy from Stevens. Cheer not overloud, mesdames, for one has much dancing yet to do. Tonight along the Street of Strange Sights (Broadway) the Crimson mingles with the Orange and the Black. "I will be a brave show...
...shall not regret the passing of the Lexington Avenue Opera House as a temple of the muse. Its acoustics were bad; the orchestra sounded overloud and seemed to be almost a veil between the singers and the audience. Furthermore, it was almost as bad as trying to make your way to a Yale-Harvard football match to get to the entrance of the house. The street cars ran ceaselessly past the front, and there was usually a great jam of automobiles, pedestrians. And once you had got in it was equally difficult to get away...
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