Word: sound
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Eastman has a faithful, attendant physician, Dr. Albert D. Kaiser. His sharp ears caught the sound of a hasty knock as the sleeping car attendant dashed past his door. "I arose," said Dr. Kaiser afterward, "and found Eastman sleeping peacefully. ... I told him to fly. ... He grabbed for his clothes, but I shouted: 'Leave everything! Not a second to lose...
...drafted soldiers are not, fortunately, ever allowed an access to the stage; there are no mob scenes or speeches from the window. But the sound of the soldiers' voices is heard and their fifers play gay tunes in the expectation of disaster. A sputter of rockets goes up, at night, for a last and tragic parade. Confused, threatening, alive, these sounds sift into the shadowed room which is the stage; a room in which there has been caught, by some soft and secret charm of writing, by the clever playing of Mary Ellis and Basil Sydney, the intimate mystery...
...simple reflex has been conditioned by the bell; the dog has associated the food with the sound; the power house of the upper brain has gone into action, and the intelligent animal now reacts to an idea. This is the learning mechanism in its elementary form. If the upper brain is now removed, the learned reaction will be lost...
Less superlatively staged, the play might have seemed no more than sound and furies signifying nothing. But James Reynold's elaborately perfect settings surrounded a practically flawless cast which in turn surrounded the magnificent performance of Laurette Taylor as Fifi Sands. Laurette Taylor was born on April Fools Day some time ago; she is married to Playwright J. Hartley Manners, in whose most famed opus, Peg o' My Heart, she entranced more than 600 Manhattan audiences. That was 15 years ago. Now Laurette Taylor is a better actress than ever...
President Holt's basis of reasoning is sound; but his method of applying it is weak. This sort of training belongs in secondary schools; when it is employed in college, its arbitrary nature is opposed to the very independence and completeness of education at which it aims...