Word: sound
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...country was informed that the President was sound asleep when the New Year came in, and had been for some hours...
...Democrats now, like Sisyphus in the classic fable, must roll our great, heavy stone uphill again, and we never will roll it uphill again unless there shall be a reversion on the part of the party to its former sound ideas of the proper relations between the states and the National Government and between governmental activity and private industrial activity...
...could find a new phrase or change for a quarter. At regular intervals, the cabdrivers hear, from within, a prolonged rattling murmur which means that an act has ended and the nonsports are giving an imitation of enthusiasm. On a certain cold night last week, they heard that familiar sound ; it seemed curiously louder, nor did it die away. While they swapped butts, it grew, swelled into a steady, insistent, thunderous, stubborn volley, lasted for 13 minutes. The shuffling ones stared at one another in silent amaze. ''Cheest!" they said...
Inside, in the great warm hall, a shivering conductor shuffled his feet, besought silence; the lights of the entr'acte dimmed; still the great sound continued. In his dressing-room, a 28-ysar old U.S. baritone powdered his nose. Cast with the revered Scotti in the season's revival of Verdi's Falstaff, he had just ended the second act with the aria E sogno, in which he sets forth his suspicions that his spouse, Mistress Ford, is plotting infidelity with "that reverend vice, that grey iniquity, that father ruffian, that vanity in years," Falstaff (Scotti...
...Washington Americans (TIME, Sept. 22 et seq.). "The president of one of the largest public utility corporations in the country"* thanked Mr. Bagley for having reduced his weight ten pounds. "One of those bobbed-haired stenographers" said she used to lie in bed of a morning laughing at the sound of her family doing their daily "physical torture." "One morning, though, I got up to watch them, and ever since I've been helping them loosen the plaster on the ceilings...