Word: profoundity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...quiet. Perhaps words of moment to the Peace of the World were about to fall. Ponderously the American Ambassador drew a folded sheaf of papers from his breast pocket, smoothed them, cleared his throat, adjusted his tortoiseshells and began to read: ". . . seize with pleasure this occasion to express my profound respect for the British press . . . admirable tone, balance and sense . . . the American press partially superseded by the use of radio during our national campaign . . . auspicious occasion . . . heartfelt thanks...
...play is from the pen of no less a person than William Somerset (Of Human Bondage) Maugham. Melodramatic in outline, declamatory in some lines, slow in the first act, it remains not a profound play, but a sensitive, skillful...
...would have been permissible for sugarmen to frown, last week, at nearly every piece of news which concerned their industry. Profound is the depression in the sugar business. Raw sugar has fallen from 5.09? a pound in Jan., 1927, to 1.91? last fortnight, the lowest price on record. Over the same period, refined sugar has slipped from 6.36? a pound to 5.10? , last week's figure...
...Walter Thompson Co.; retired. Last week Pioneer Thompson died. Today the advertising company he fostered is one of America's three biggest.* Its president is Stanley Resor. Its vice president is John Broadus Watson, author of "Homing and Related Activities of Birds." who applies to advertising his profound knowledge of behaviorism, plots shrewd campaigns for Fleischmann's Yeast, Pennsylvania R. R., Lux, Maxwell House Coffee...
Faust (George Gaul) was seen early in the evening, moaning his discontent. Though often he voiced the assurance that he was thinking profound thoughts, his bombastic manner of doing so made you think he was lying. His intellectual hauteur had grown somewhat to resemble Gene Tunney's when finally the devil appeared with promises of pleasure. In the first moment of action on the stage and one in which for an instant the enchantments of the underworld seemed real, Faust wrapped his cloak around him and flew with his companion through the dark air in search of gaudy cities...