Word: dinfully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...House meeting lasted 65 minutes, with 392 members responding to the long formal roll-call. Chairman Hawley of the Ways & Means Committee introduced his resolution to reduce by 1% the normal tax rates, the House's prime business. For the first time sound-recording newsreels reported the din and disorder. Representative Sam Hill of Washington hurrying to his House duties slipped on icy pavement, rammed a pipestem through the roof of his mouth, severed an artery...
Interrupted at this point by the startling din of an electric bell under the table, Sir James picked up two empty wine glasses, held them like the receiver and transmitter of a telephone, and spoke with concentrated whimsy thus...
...Johans Gade, and a whole battery in Vor Frelsers Kirke, the hoary Church of Our Saviour, where booming Lutheran Bishop Lunde would ask, "Saa til sparger jeg dig, Olaf, for Gud's assym og. I denne Kristne forsamlings nerverelse. vil du have Martha som hos dig staar til din egtehustrn...
...after whom their land is named, Mexicans again paid costly homage last week?by flying at each others' throats. There is no surer way of pleasing God Mexitl (see map). Exalted in that one of the 13 heavens which is his own?the fiery blue heaven, where the din of ghastly battle never ceases?this old pagan deity may well have looked down, last week, upon his people and exulted, "How little they have changed...
...years when he led it, gave it exceeding grace and innocence. Second was a manuscript performance of Respighi's Roman Festivals, music that would be perilously close to claptrap if done by any other. But Toscanini found something real and savage in all the din of the Circus Maximus episode. Lions roared. Christians sang their martyr songs. Part of it would make excellent accompaniment for a Griffith cinema with its bells and serenades and saltarellos, but Toscanini made it seem important for itself, almost a worthy companion to Debussy's Iberia, which followed; and to the Tannhauser overture...