Word: sound
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Viscount Lascelles is 44, and still awaiting the death of his father, the Earl of Harewood, 80, sound as a cudgel. Though the King-Emperor often hunts with the Earl of Harewood, His Majesty almost never visits Goldsborough Hall, the estate of Lord Lascelles and Princess Mary. When the Queen-Empress goes there it is noticed, moreover, that Lord Lascelles is usually away. From this state of affairs springs the suspicion, now current in court circles, that Viscount Lascelles pointedly" resents the King-Emperor's neglect in not raising his rank since his marriage to Princess Mary...
Suddenly came a sound at the casement window. It was pushed open, and a seven-year-old boy climbed onto the sill. He was supported by a weary, drawn-faced woman, Mme. Zizi Lambrino, one-time morganatic wife of Prince Carol. The towheaded boy was their son, Mircea...
...Exchange lists 12,000,000 shares of 22 foreign stock issues only by subterfuge. New York state law forbids the Exchange listing them directly. 5) Uncounted U. S. money is buying foreign stocks through private bankers. Much of this foreign stock is sound. But much also is unsound, could not pass the Stock Exchange's rigid tests of reliability. 6) Thoroughly reliable foreign stocks at present have no ready trading market...
Once more the Student Vagabond has returned, not this time from the dizzy whirl of vacation wanderings, but from the marble halls of Widener; once more he returns, metaphorically speaking, to the sound of music...
...second movement, "Joice Heth ? 161-year-old Negress," was being played. That swathing sound in the woodwinds suggested her boast, capitalized by Barnum for 25c admission, that she was first to swathe George Washington at birth. Rather an indecent theme?like all operas ? but a good deal of the piece seemed to be built around a Negro spiritual...