Word: sound
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...main reasons for supporting Dewey, said Roper, are a feeling that it's time for a change, that Dewey has proved himself a capable administrator, that he would be able to handle Russia abroad and do a "good, sound, businesslike job" at home. Against him is a dislike of the cold, cocksure Dewey manner, a fear that he is motivated by expediency, and the fact that he has run before and lost. As of last month, when Dewey was riding the crest of his Oregon victory, he could have beaten President Truman by 41% to 34%, would have lost...
...incessant roar of the planes-that typical and terrible 20th Century sound, a voice of cold mechanized anger-filled every ear in the city. It reverberated in the bizarre stone ears of the hollow, broken houses; it throbbed in the weary ears of Berlin's people who were bitter, afraid, but far from broken; it echoed in the intently listening ear of history. The sound meant one thing: the West was standing its ground and fighting back...
Europeans, to whom politics is grim and often deadly business, were puzzled by the rowdedow. Said one Frenchman: "I understand opera singers come and sing popular songs . . . Surely you cannot consider it sound to nominate a President by singing songs...
Doris Duke ("Richest-girl-in-the -world") Rubirosa arrived safe & sound at her occasional home near Honolulu without the Dominican Ambassador to Argentina, whom she married in Paris only last September. She said that she was just taking a little vacation, and husband Porfirio might turn up later...
When Henry Miller's first novel, Tropic of Cancer, came out in Paris in 1931, it was greeted with shocked silence, snickers, or the sound of licking lips. Its admirers took its weedy profusion of four-letter words for daring wit and convention-defying "art." Miller became the hero of Bohemian barflies and Greenwich Villagers everywhere...