Word: sounding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first place, let us deny that "Novelist Williamson's" first name is pronounced as you have said. Thames is pronounces with a "th" sound, as one syllable, and to rime with James...
...Morgan, Francis Lee Higginson and the chairman, famed Owen D. Young, was scheduled to meet in Manhattan at 11 a. m. Promptly on the hour they trooped aboard Director Baker's Viking, 272-foot seagoing yacht. While General Electric motors propelled the Viking down Long Island Sound they transacted business, pocketed the gold pieces always given directors for incidental expenses,, adjourned for luncheon. The afternoon was spent on a pleasure jaunt, no minutes being kept of what was said or done...
...Because audiences, made critical by the increasing efficiency of the sound device, can always tell when the star player moves his or her lips while an unseen person does the singing, officials of Warner and First National advised their studios last week to allow no more doubling...
...surgeon named Blake whom she later divorced (TIME, Aug. 5). But that happened in the East. In Nevada, where the Reno divorce mill grinds exceedingly fast and the ways of women are an old story, the matter caused little comment. In Nevada the Mackay name rings with a sound of pure silver because it was there that the late John William Mackay, Irish pioneer, struck the Comstock Lode in 1873, earning $1,850 for every 15? he had invested. And it is there that Clarence Hungerford Mackay has been endowing the State University in his father's memory ever...
Married. Anita Stewart, cinemactress, to George Converse, Manhattan businessman; in Hollywood. Sound films recorded the ceremony...