Word: profound
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...either regarded the Hippodrome with juvenile ecstasy or profound distaste. There was no middle ground. It was the shrine of amusement which housed the private gods of Youth. Once boarding school began-and with it excursions, possibly furtive, to the Follies-these gods mourned another apostate...
...other hand, our opponents have lost none of their fighting force and have a number of additions of great strength. Garrett, and Garner, and Pou, and Crisp, and Rayburn will be joined by Rainey, and Hull, and Cannon [Clarence Cannon of Missouri], whose profound knowledge of parliamentary law is familiar to us all. We, as a party, will have our work cut out for us if we are to emerge from the parliamentary battles of the next session with credit to ourselves and to our party, and it cannot be done without co-operation and teamwork...
...Wells, who is contesting London University for the Laborites, championed capital levy which he described as "a special conscription of credit from rich men for the general need in a time of profound eco-nomic distress...
...Your name is pronounced by all healthy-minded people with profound respect and 'Mussolinismo' has become a religion, has become a doctrine of redemption which finds in the whole world thousands of admirers and proselytes. A great part of the Spanish Army and people? indeed, almost all of them?realized that the example of Fascismo in Italy could be imitated and they performed the same work of redemption. This I am proud to proclaim today before the head of the Italian State, who is also head of Fascismo...
...even greater than Hamlet, although it is very difficult to compare the two. It depends very much on the temperament of the actor. My own tends toward the Greek drama. The character of Hamlet is greater in scope than that of Oedipus; its philosophy is more profound and infinitely more intricate. The character of Oedipus is less complicated, less subtle. It is simple and straightforward, and for that very reason Sophocles has made it more impressive in the vastness of its emotions...