Word: sounding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...such positive, commanding words Deputies of the Right pricked up their ears. The whole Chamber began to sense that here was another Strong Man, like the men who are his backers, Poincare and Clemenceau, both too old and sick to take the helm. With sound strategy, M. Tardieu shifted from foreign affairs to a masterful address on internal agrarian and financial policy. That turned the scale. For years M. Tardieu has been called Le Dauphin ("The Crown Prince"), designated to succession by the fiscal genius who saved and stabilized the franc, M. Raymond Poincare (TIME, Jan. 3. 1927). Last week...
...first bill was a sound picture, made as an experiment by the Philadelphia Police Department, of a murderer, one William E. Peters, confessing his crime. With a tired, unshaven face and worn, disordered clothes pulled and stretched by fierce handling in the patrol wagon, Peters told slowly about going to his girl's home, following her upstairs, quarreling with her, shooting...
...have been in the past. Only a sense of the topical connection of these particular scenes and the unlikelihood that a camera could go around the world in a dirigible without finding anything interesting keeps you watching till the end. Apparently the unlikely has happened. There is a synchronized sound accompaniment, but that was put in at the studio. Best shot: one of the crew crawling out along the hull 3,000 ft. above the Atlantic...
Leopold Stokowski, proud conductor of the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra, last week turned upon his applauding audience and said: "This strange beating together of hands has no meaning. To me it is very disturbing. We try to make sounds like music, and then in between comes this strange sound that you make. I am not criticizing you. I am criticizing a custom. I don't know where it originated, but probably back in some dark forest in medieval days." Delighted, the audience clapped loudly...
...City, chubby Miss Catherine M. Shaughnessy, has registered digits or letters as the particular drum requires. When dialed, the drums swirl until the called symbols stop alongside telephoto tubes. Light shines through the exposed part of the drum film and modulates the tube current, which is transformed into the sound waves of Miss Shaughnessy's best accent. The manual operator listens, plugs in the call, does not even have to say "Thank...