Word: racketeered
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...world series has been broadcast to five million listeners, the "77" jersey of Grange viewed from behind by spectator and player alike, the polo mallet of Devercux Milburn, the horseshoes that were first under the wire at Churchill Downs, the bats of Ruth and Gehrig, and Bill Tilden's racket. Harvard students will notice that no college of size is unrepresented but their...
...crowded Loop district. Last week also, Prince Wilhelm of Sweden visited Chicago. Before arriving he begged the Chicago police not to insist upon a honking, droning, whizzing, roaring escort for him; not, at least, to equip the escort with sirens. Prince Wilhelm said that he would find "such a racket very annoying." So the Chicago City Council, which has listened with pride to earsplitting, mile-a-minute escorts for Roman Catholic cardinals at the Eucharistic Congress, Queen Marie of Rumania, fisticuffers, gas merchants and almost every least journey of Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson, decreed that hereafter siren-blowing...
Rapid City became, suddenly, a noisy pandemonium. Mill whistles screeched, fire alarms wailed loudly, people cheered and shouted; through all this racket was deeply audible the steady stentorian drumming of an airplane motor. President Coolidge, a curiously small and inconspicuous figure, stood with a group of Sunday-School children, waving a white handkerchief as he craned up at the aviator who was circling the town barely above the trees. Presently the plane dipped sharply over where the President was standing, then flew swiftly away over the distant hills. The roar of its motor, all whistles and alarms dwindled...
...discussing broadly the question of American worship of size and narrowly the growth of our large cities, he speaks of the commuter who "spends his half hour not in healthy exercise but in hurtling through the bowels of the earth in a little hell of ugliness and stuffiness and racket and overcrowding". Only in a few scattered phrases does he succeed in such apt description, while more nauseating metaphors such as "the toothaches and pimples of our spiritual experiences" abound...
When asked for the opinion concerning the Mexican situation Bob laid the blame on the two factions in Mexico. "Mexicans ain't all there," opined Bob. "They don't know how to manage. Two factions raise all the racket. It's the same in China. The Chinese have so many languages among themselves. We are also more civilized than the Chinese, we know how to act, how to control ourselves. They can only say "no checkee . . . no laundree". But it's different with the Italians. They made good in this country. It it wasn't for them we wouldn...