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...celebrating the tercentenary of the first historic landing of the Dutch; Commander Lansdowne delivered a graceful message from President Coolidge to Governor Smith, then piloted his ship swiftly further up state. From the roofs of their office buildings, the excited citizens of Rochester and Buffalo greeted the vessel with shrill shoutings. To make the voyage still more memorable, Commander Lansdowne descended to an altitude of only 1,200 feet above Niagara Falls. The crew maintained they felt the spray, and for the first time the gigantic waterfall had a dirigible passing over...
...Shrill shoutings from the excited citizens of Rochester and Buffalo...
...grandson!" Then came the L's and with them "Ludy's" name. The Communists shouted so loud that they almost frightened themselves-a Herculean effort that made their former exertions appear entirely Lilliputian. Jealous Monarchists screamed "Ein, Zwei, Drei" and thundered a counterblast of shrill hisses. "Ludy," always a perfect gentleman, sat with his arms folded, looking the Communists squarely in the eyes and repeatedly bowing to them, although they were anything but complimentary. His supporters, however, stood by him, and yelled with one mighty voice: "Shame on you, you convicts!" Which was a fine example of homogeneous...
...Paris agitation started to replace "shrill-sirened, hard-honking" automobiles by those equipped with a "musical honker...
...Evening" started by a white-haired, grey-bearded professor giving a dissertation on Sologub. Then up jumped a poet symbolist; told how much better he was than Sologub, recited one, two, three, four of his poems; started to recite the fifth, but the audience had had enough. Shrieks shrill and roars raucous rent the atmosphere-the poet sadly sat down...