Word: sounding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Soresi contends that pain gives no protection against injury because it gives no signal until after some injury has been suffered. (The same argument might be used against fire alarms, which do not sound until a fire has broken out.) Pain does not even give protection against mosquito bites, he argues, because it is felt only after the mosquito "has sucked your blood and perhaps infected you with malaria." Soresi does not mention the fact that after one or two mosquito bites, most people know enough to head for a screened porch...
...fatter than anyone suspected back in 1630. The Earl's Crown charter spoke with magnificent vagueness of a strip 40 leagues wide extending "throughout all the main lands . . . from the western [Atlantic] ocean to the South Seas [the Pacific]. A century and a half later, with a sound respect for geography and the realities of U.S. politics, Connecticut bowed to congressional insistence and ceded her western claims, with one exception. The exception was the Western Reserve, a 120-mile strip bordering Lake Erie...
Britain's Colonial Secretary Arthur Creech Jones also sat in on the meeting, to represent the interests of dollar-earning Malaya. Explained one Whitehaller: "That mumbling sound you hear is Creech Jones as representative of the British government trying to persuade himself as representative of Malaya that Malaya should cut its imports. It will...
...Messrs. Berlin & Sherwood and Moss Hart) was Broadway's most ballyhooed hot-weather opening since Composer Berlin's bang-up This Is the Army in 1942. This is not the army. This is not even a very exciting summer event. Miss Liberty has much that is sound Broadway about it, but little of Berlin at his best, and nothing of Sherwood...
...good job of giving some old gags a new gloss; and masquerading as an immigrant student in one of Schoolmarm Mayo's naturalization classes, he gets off an excellent range of muddled European accents. Brightest piece of invention: a bit of hot-weather Americana, in which the sound track picks up the nasal lovemaking of a Brooklyn couple in the moonlit shadows of Jones Beach...