Word: sounding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senator when these things happen. And most embarrassing of all, thought observers, for aged U. S. Senator Francis Emory Warren of Wyoming ("The Greatest Shepherd Since Abraham"), against whom the $1,850,000 suit was brought last week. Senator Warren, of all Senators, might be considered a sound bank official. For many a year he has managed fiscal matters of great import to the U. S. as chairman of the potent Senate Committee on Appropriations...
...passion for antiques. He may be old (65), but he is not yet ready to get out of journalism. Rather, he is trimming his properties, consolidating them, fertilizing the hardy ones, weeding out the weak ones; so that a banker can look at them and say: "They are a sound unit." But Hearst no longer cracks the whip that terrorized his rivals and upset the standards of journalism at the turn of the century. He is now willing to compromise, or to stand...
...illiterate Sibyl who had vowed never to quit her chair by the window "save only for the tomb." Finally, although Count Corti does not note it, 46 of the descendants of Meyer Amschel had intermarried before the 19th century was out, in a burst of shocking eugenics and sound economics...
...judge that the lion had ruined financially. The throbbing drama, an old one, was arranged so that the end was happy. It was an unfortunate vehicle for the Vitaphone; the lines were terrible, making the audience laugh in tense moments. The girl had a throaty voice. Only Lionel Barrymore sounded convincing. He is the Vitaphone's best bet at the present stage of development. Women's voices are the most annoying problem; they either take on a lisp, or else they sound husky...
...drew a charcoal cartoon of himself which amused his audience but did not stop their demands for song. Chaliapin rose a third time, went through the motions of an aria, puffing his chest, swinging his arms, opening and shutting his mouth like a large Russian goldfish, without making a sound. After the performance was over, he said that he could not sing for nothing because of his contracts...