Word: profound
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...through the White House scarcely a sound was heard-for it was Thanksgiving Day. In the morning, the President read his newspapers, scanned his mail. Before noon the calm grew more profound, for the President and Mrs. Coolidge together with Mr. and Mrs. Frank W. Stearns of Boston and Attorney General John Garibaldi Sargent had departed for worship at the Metropolitan Methodist Episcopal Church,* where Bishop William F. McDowell preached. Upon their return, the five lunched lightly. Then the President napped while the rest of the party went to see Ethel Barrymore in The Constant Wife...
...profound contempt for this uneasy little king, with his know-it-all air, and his face like a plum; what was more the king had touched him on a sensitive spot. All his life he was annoyed that people made him paint their faces and refused to give a guinea for his hayricks and his cottages. Portraiture was fashionable. Landscape was not. Well, one lived in the world; one painted portraits. Sir Joshua had done it; scuttling Romney did it; Thomas Lawrence got himself into the Royal Academy at 21 by doing it. Venuses and Adonises. Even the king managed...
...form of comedy different from the classical; toward a more modern form which does not exclude pathos or even a bit of tragedy but mingles tears with laughter. In fact wherever, as in this play, the study of a character--even a character in a comedy--becomes profound, it tends to become drama...
...much of countries and peoples as of civilizations and states of souls." This Diary moved the New York Times to compare the author with Dante. Dr. Glenn Frank thought: "Keyserling may turn out to be a John the Baptist." Even dour Dean Inge brightened and said: "A really profound and original book...
Syncopating Sue (Corinne Griffith, Tom Moore). A beautiful, not profound blonde wants to be a real actress in Cut Price Glory. Everybody knows what a girl must put up with to succeed in the profession nowadays. These theatrical managers . . . However, Sue does become an actress, at the last minute. Eddie Murphy forsakes the boat bound for Europe, they fade out of sight floating together on Eddie's drum in the middle of the harbor. They easily fade out of memory, too, though they are not hard to look upon while aflash before...