Word: profound
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...alone in the casual caustic. One profound commentator on national life has found Americans to be a race of Rotarians, thinking only of themselves. Another novelist places these unfortunates low in the scale by declaring them to be a race of rather nasty people, seeking primarily to satisfy their lowest impulses. A foreign writer glances across the ocean and through the haze of three thousand miles deduces that they are prigs, smug claimants of virtue where no virtue exists. A recent visitor to Boston pronounces them a lazy people, desiring luxury and case. And their most consistent critic declares that...
...Negroes, including two onetime Protestant ministers; urged them to train their children for priesthood, sisterhood; said: "I earnestly ask all our colored citizens to consider the position of the Catholic church, to study her teachings, to realize that her ceremonials, her processions, her music are full of a profound meaning which, if understood, could not fail to stir the deepest emotion of the colored race...
...19th hole. Richard Jones, Massachusetts state champion, pressed Robert Tyre Jones hard before succumbing by one hole. M. B. Stevenson played a family match against long-driving young Roland MacKenzie. Long an intimate of the lad's parents, Mr. Stevenson sent Mrs. MacKenzie Sr. a telegram expressing profound sorrow at having been forced to eliminate her son. Francis Ouimet and Charles Evans, both former title holders, came through the early rounds with ease; they might, if Jones relapsed, meet in the finals. Von Elm beat Watts Gunn, 8 and 7, and rollicked to a victory over a Chicago strapper...
...York Evening Post were treated to his pungent, piercing comments during several months that he spent as guest critic with that newspaper (TIME, Oct. 13, 1924, et seq.). During those same months, Critic Newman was treated to a close-range view of the great U. S. pastime of discovering profound significance in artistry previously considered crude, slapstick or otherwise lowly-Charles Chaplin, Ring Lardner, Harlem, George Gershwin, Paul Whiteman...
Harold Grange may well become a popular cinema hero. His acting, while not profound, is natural, easy, almost casual. His gridiron performance at the end of the picture is so realistic that, in an advance showing to a selected audience, "Big Bill" Edwards, famed guard and "playboy of Princeton," leapt to his feet, shouted: "There he goes." The audience re-echoed with cries of "Come...