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...fitting automobile. In New York, Wilfred John Funk, light-versifying president of Funk & Wagnalls Co. (publishing, Literary Digest), announced his list of the ten most beautiful words in the English language-dawn, hush, lullaby, murmuring, tranquil, mist, luminous, chimes, golden, melody. Said he: "Beauty of sound is not enough. Mush is a word pleasant to the ear, but its connotation is ugly. Beauty of meaning is not sufficient. Mother is one of our most loved words, but it lacks euphony." Meeting in Manhattan's Empire State Building, members of the National Transportation Committee were annoyed by a sound...
...Svetozar will eat-now we can all eat!" was the joyous, famished cry of the other Pribitchevitches. In Belgrade Hospital dauntless old Svetozar Pribitchevitch was propped up in bed by sympathetic nurses. They fed him mush from a bowl. They wiped the old man's chin. When he was discreetly full, they tucked Svetozar Pribitchevitch cozily...
...Earl Brydges, musher from Cranberry Portage: the 200-mi. non-stop dogsled derby at The Pas, Manitoba, riding in his sled, too tired to mush, with three played-out dogs in the sled with him, and six pulling. Shorty Russic was second; Emil St. Goddard, the favorite, third...
City Lights is not silent in the strictest sense. Synchronized sound effects and music are used beginning with the very first sequence, where the talkies are burlesqued by horn sounds that make the actors seem to be talking with their mouths full of mush. Also there is an episode where Mr. Chaplin swallows a whistle. Each time he coughs he whistles and he cannot stop coughing. Taxis hurry up and stop, dogs overwhelm him. Hollywood also grew hysterical during a prizefight in which Charlie survives two rounds by dodging so briskly that the referee is always between...
...other hand those men who are more receptive and yet less under the influence of the ideas of others are capable of imagining many possible careers for themselves. The opportunities which seem open for them are so wide that they mush arbitrarily narrow their efforts and interests. Aid and advice on such orientation are offered by the University Consultant on careers, and many men who do not quite know their own minds can find here certain helpful suggestions as to the path they should follow...