Word: profound
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Signs. Ways of recognizing old age: headaches, vertigo, apoplectic attacks, convulsions, sudden and profound lapses of memory, confusion, restlessness, aphasia, physical disability, inability to assimilate new ideas (misoneism, neophobia). (Menas S. Gregory of Bellevue Hospital, Manhattan...
...Methodist ministers of Ohio. Reason: "In the name of Ohio Methodism I desire to report that the services of Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt in Ohio have produced a profound impression on the moral forces of the entire state"-Bishop T h e o d o r e S u m m e r s H e n d e r s o n . Florence Reed, actress. Reason: "No wise housewife would discharge an efficient d o m e s t i c s e r v a n t . & a m p ; q u o t ; Louis J. Tabor, Master...
They say the coming election may have a profound effect upon the future of the country's laws. A vacancy in the Supreme Court might be filled by some one whom President Harding or President Coolidge would never have chosen. Those terrific 5-to-4 decisions might go the other way. Picture, for example, a 5-to-4 decision on Prohibition...
...Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson of Chicago is a supreme example of the importance of not being earnest, of "giving a good show." (In this connection, Mr. Kent makes the astonishing statement that President Coolidge has "a profound distaste" for fishing...
...Metropolitan Opera produced his Shanewis. His principal resemblance to Composers Berlin and Gershwin is in his face: the three men have aqueline, bony faces, high foreheads, strong jaws. Musically, the three are scattered. The two Jews write so that people sing their songs. Cadman, although by no means profound, writes for listeners. The Gershwins and Berlin are in the market places, night clubs; he in the parlor and concert hall. Berlin is admittedly no musician. But Gershwin is. And both are nimble tumblejacks with chords. Cadman, people find, who have followed his 25 years of music from organ compositions...