Word: sounded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...honor its bonds as soon as possible, he avoided reference to France's U. S. and British debts. He said that he was engaged in preparing the 1926 budget (the 1925 budget is still before the Senate) and that he aimed to produce one "which will be absolutely sound, as you English and Americans understand the word, which will meet every expenditure out of taxation and produce an impression of absolute sincerity." That, he said, was France's and his immediate task...
...seems that the Gorilla was a monstrous criminal who advertised his criming and then fulfilled his promises. Murders and whatnot were his pastime. On this particular evening, he operates in the livingroom, the garage and the cellar of the Stevens mansion. A detailed report of the activity would sound very much like a 9-year-old child's explaining of the libretto of Boheme. Therefore, let it be recorded that guns are going off almost continually, nearly every member of the cast is kidnapped before the evening is over and that the whole difficulty is finally solved...
Then Flotsam and Jetsam (The University of Pennsylvania) : "The inheritors of this museum of styles are now trying to impose some sort of unity upon it. . . . What does this confusion, this lack of any sound instinct imply in the education here offered...
...tricks of expressionist drama. As in the Fifth Avenue scene of "The Hairy Ape", so here in the funeral scene masks are used to intensify the impression of stifling conventionality. As in "The Beggar on Horseback", newsboys rush in selling extras. As in "All God's Chillun," the plaintive sound of the grind-organ and the hurdy-gurdy suggest the flavor of the times through popular airs. As in "The Adding Machine", the singing of "My country 'tis of thee" marks the culmination of an outburst of intolerance. The phonograph which played a poignant role in "Rain...
This unwillingness on the part of physicians to do themselves and their cause common justice in the eyes of the public is a neglect of the obligation owed to humanity by medical men. Unquestionably doctors are better qualified than any one else to preach sound health, yet they are willing to leave the job to unorganized public opinion. When they feel a lack of public support, they complain that they have no time to defend themselves. This is an age of strenuous advertising, in which every cause, no matter how worthwhile, must constantly justify itself before the public or fall...