Word: sounding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Reorganization. "Reorganization is a necessity of sound administration. . . . The presentation of any specific plan enlivens opposition from every official whose authority may be curtailed ... of citizens who are selfishly interested. ... All administrative activities should be placed in groups under singleheaded responsibility ... while quasi-legislative and quasi-judicial functions should be removed from, individual authority and assigned to boards and commissions. ... It is desirable that we first have experience with these groups in action before we create new departments. ... I can see no hope for sound reorganization unless Congress be willing to delegate its authority to the executive who should...
...House meeting lasted 65 minutes, with 392 members responding to the long formal roll-call. Chairman Hawley of the Ways & Means Committee introduced his resolution to reduce by 1% the normal tax rates, the House's prime business. For the first time sound-recording newsreels reported the din and disorder. Representative Sam Hill of Washington hurrying to his House duties slipped on icy pavement, rammed a pipestem through the roof of his mouth, severed an artery...
...said. President Lowell has repeatedly pointed out that men are not to be forced to enter the Houses. If it so develops that the atmosphere in the Houses is such to attract men to them, the extinction of the clubs involved will be but another example of the sound principal of survival of the fittest...
...play the flute are flautists; musicians who play the lute are Internists or lutenists) plucked or twanged the strings either with their fingers or a plectrum. Because of its spoon-shaped body the instrument cannot be confused with the modern guitar which has a flat bottom joined to the sound board by separate ribs. In appearance it is more like the mongrel, wire-strung mandolin...
...Kiss (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Greta Garbo is in this one. It is silent, yet its climax takes place in the locale that sound pictures have dealt with more successfully than any other?a murder trial. Garbo's brilliance as one more misunderstood wife is alone responsible for the crowds that lined up a block long to see it in cities where it was shown last week. Her husband is older than she. She kills him when he is pummeling a boy who tried to kiss her. Her lawyer, who is her real lover, convinces the jury that her husband committed...