Word: sound
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rudolf Forster, an Austrian, makes his accent sound just like Miss Abba's, and he is just as splendid in his mad Russian gusto, although he shows the restraint befitting a prince consort. Equal praise is due the rest of the cast, as well as Robert Sherwood, who did the translation from the French of Jacques Deval...
...reason that the proposals for governmental extension of medical care for the poor, and also for further state endowment of medical education and research, is so eminently sound in the way the committee of doctors has presented it, is because, unlike so many governmental extensions today, it looks for the use of existing agencies to carry out the program. Though the thought of a paternalistic federal bureaucracy dealing out the loaves and fishes to favored medical organizations in the future is enough to conjure up the doubts of even the most fervent believers in governmental encroachment, there is no need...
Though Philip Murray and George Harrison are two of the ablest labor negotiators in the land, their assignment was nearly superhuman. They strained for cordiality, addressed each other as "George" and "Phil." They posed reluctantly for newsreel cameramen shaking hands-without sound effects. Mustering a sour smile, Phil Murray observed: "This will look pretty fishy." And George Harrison answered: "Yes, when they see this the rank & file will decide here's where we sold them down the river...
Over fifty puck chasers turned up at the Varsity Club at seven o'clock yesterday to sound the first call to arms of the 1937-38 Varsity hockey team, coached as usual by Joe Stubbe and captained this year by S. Trafford Hicks...
...realize their sound social...