Word: sound
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University of Chicago. He was President of Antioch College from 1907 to 1917. He rustles about in the Senate like a professor in an examination room, reminding heated debaters of the Senate rules, whispering concise answers and directions to his colleagues in the cloakroom. To have such a man sound the party's first clarion would be, thought one hasty commentator, "like having a clerk address the stockholders...
...Lent is a season of music; composers, stirred by the most human and the most tragic story in the world, have written notes to sound its sadness or its glory. The greatest of all such music is The Passion of Our Lord according to St. Matthew, by Johann Sebastian Bach; this, 199 years after it was heard for the first time, was twice performed last week in Manhattan by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra directed by Ossip Gabrilowitch...
...Brownie," the name of the small Eastman box camera, has less universality of spelling, sound, or sense, and is less commonly used...
Fortunes have been lost in advertising-but not when the product is as sound and as timely as Mr. Mazur's book...
Artist Sloan's first notable paintings were those which he made of Manhattan or Philadelphia streets and houses, engrossing not alone because they are energetic paintings full of motion and the suggestion of sound, but also because the scenes which they depict are now vanished. In these paintings-The Rathskeller, Philadelphia, Scrubwomen in the Old Astor Library, John Butler Yeats at Petitpas, The City from Greenwich-the figures have the frayed excitement, or the energetic grief that really appears in the faces of city people. Later, small, sparrowlike John Sloan left the city and painted in rock-bound Gloucester...