Word: profound
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...grew up, quick-witted, sensitive, gay, they must have talked together for hours about these people and their plight - perhaps in a meadow like the dewy one in their book Knee-High to aGrasshopper - and been consumed by that uncomfortable emotion which is a mixture of furious exasperation and profound pity. They must have compacted to make a united effort some day to sting, poke, wheedle, pat and charm all such people out of their bungalow souls into the big bright mansions of life and the world...
...Purity League while his wife is on leave of absence. Apparently the Dillingham production executives tossed Miss Lillie the script with its two good songs ( Nicodemus" and "You Know That I Know ) and its feeble lines, and told her to see what she could with it. In its profound inanity she discovers as many laughs as are to be heard in one theatre anywhere along Broadway. Gowned in a Turkish towel, she warbles her hopelessly ridiculous songs, wrestles with Purity League President Bliss, flops on her other end with the savoir faire and polite restraint of a duchess, with...
...With profound regrets, profuse eulogies, the New York Symphony Society accepted the resignation of Walter Johannes Damrosch as conductor, urged him to continue as honored guest conductor, as conductor of the Children's and Young People's Concerts, in order that "this incomparable work . . . may be continued under the very best auspices." He acquiesced...
...impressive Devil, making funny faces, playing mean pranks, raising hell. In the end, however, he loses his wager with the Lord's archangel, for Faust regained a soul by dying at the side of Marguerite with LOVE in his heart. A story not without significance, but florid rather than profound. The excellence of the film lies in its beauty, its brilliant visualization of fantasy...
...Harvard teachers is taken into account. President Eliot has been in a true sense an educational leader for the nation. The educational policies he introduced into Harvard College have been taken up not only by other collegiate institutions, but also by the schools and he has had a profound influence through his direct leadership in school affairs. In speeches, essays, and committee reports, his opinions have had currency among teacher and school officers and have by them been given great weight in the determination of school policies. His influence has been sought in other fields as well...