Word: soundingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Russia, declined to agree with the U. S. on naval limitation, neglected to deal with the desperate British coal situation, and once more rebuffed the expressed desire of Continental nations to gird the League with strength to enforce international settlements. Even should each of these doubtful acts be adjudged sound, their sum total remains negative and barren. Talk rumbles in England that a change at the helm of State is overdue. As the New Year looms, it is pertinent to re-examine Stanley Baldwin. Policies. The Prime Minister's policies are that he is honest, broadly disinterested, hugely naive...
...prosperity is now general and increasing. Business failures are less numerous by half than in 1913. Unemployment has been reduced to 965,000 and is no longer a serious problem. Production is high in the coal, metal, textile and other key industries. The currency of the Republic is absolutely sound...
...Washington, last week, Publisher William Randolph Hearst went far toward quoting the market price which he considers sound. Testifying before a Senate special committee (see THE CONGRESS) he named "$15,000 or $16,000" as the purchase price of the recent Hearst series of pseudo-Mexican documents purporting to show that huge bribes were ordered "paid" to four U. S. Senators (TIME...
...point of marrying a girl he does not love because he has been engaged to her practically since birth. Clara Bow, in the part of his true inamorata, finds ingenious and not unentertaining devices which permit this tragic possibility to be avoided. Through these devices the "It" motif, which sounded loudly through It and Hula, runs like the sound of ten trombones and a fiddle...
...people who profess to believe in it and who uphold it are hypocritical and shallow," stated Mae Murray, gorgeous blond Paramount movie star, in an interview last night with a CRIMSON reporter, after having just answered her curtain calls at the Metropolitan. "In order that this may not sound contradictory," she continued, "when one considers my several marriages, I can only say that I have always held matrimony sacred, and consider it indispensable to ultimate happiness in the intimate association of man and woman. However, marriage is not always successful, and I maintain that it is only right that...