Word: profounder
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...audience, happily accepting Dean Judd's figures, would hear of no more school economies. Ignoring Superintendent Bogan, they adopted unanimously resolutions: 1) demanding that the Board rescind its order or resign; 2 & 3) calling on Mayor Kelly and Illinois' Governor Henry Horner to intervene; 4) extending "profound thanks and appreciation" to William Randolph Hearst and the editor of the Herald & Examiner...
...Author Compton Mackenzie (Sinister Street et al.), who writes a reverently admiring introduction to Try the Sky, thinks Stuart can do it. Says he: "I am proud to think that my name may be associated, be it in ever so humble a way, with a work of the most profound spiritual importance to the modern world. ... I suggest that Francis Stuart has a message for the modern world of infinitely greater importance than anything offered by D. H. Lawrence, and I believe that in this book he has made his message more easily intelligible than in his previous novels...
...added the hope (secretly entertained perhaps) that some day somehow we too would find ourselves in the National Capital close to the great wheels whose motion so controls the lives of our countrymen and directs the destiny of the Nation. As one of the latter class I confess a profound sense of gratitude that the turn of fate finds me in Washington at a time when the Republic is in the midst of one of the most heroic struggles in its history...
...clever article entitled "Profound Mouse" on the art page of your May 15 number of TIME, your art critic describes Mickey Mouse as a "big-eyed, wisp-snouted rodent" and then goes on to declare "last week Mickey Mouse became Art"-in Manhattan's Kennedy Galleries...
...Joel McCrea) -on the ground that his wife (Irene Dunne) is selfishly ambitious. This young lady finally outwits Mrs. Phelps with a dissertation on the maternal emotion which sounds particularly astringent coming so close to Mother's Day. As dramatic pathology, The Silver Cord is more pungent than profound. It derives its pungence largely from the performance of Laura Hope Crews, who played in the stage version by Sidney Howard in 1926. There is not much action in The Silver Cord but if the cinema does not improve upon the play in this respect it has the compensating advantage...