Word: soundingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Arthur Honegger, French composer famed throughout the U. S. for his sound depiction of a giant cross-country engine, Pacific 231, announced last week in Paris that his next symphony will be called Rugby. Into music he will put the scrimmaging of a football match, trying "to express the pulsating action, reaction, rhythm and color that animates the great contest of muscles, brawn and strategic skill...
...Russell, who is known for his frankness, clarity, and intellectual courage, will try to prove that modern civilization has outgrown the antiquated ceremonious form of marriage, and that Companionate marriages between young people are not only sound in theory but also entirely practical...
...that such stocks and securities have first rights to their company dividends and that those dividends be regular. There was a flourish of expectations among Manhattan stock brokers. They thought that foreign concerns would swarm to list their stocks. However, foreign investors are amply able to buy their own sound securities. So last week the stock of only one outlander company, the Austrian Credit Anstalz, stood on the Manhattan Exchanges' list, and only one other, the Trading Company of Amsterdam, had even applied for listing during the two months...
...BLOODY POET-Desider Kostolanyi-Macy-Masius ($2.50). In a parade of purple, the emperors of Rome go through the pages of old histories with the sound of loud horns. In the annals of Tacitus and those of medieval chroniclers, these men are present; their frail lusts and meagre rascality grown enormous through the grandeur of the empire which they destroyed. In writing about them, it is hard to make them merely human; some aura of the supernatural clings to the absurd magnificence of their palaces and their crimes. Now the wildest of them all, Nero, the Bloody Poet, is imagined...
...somewhat disposed to play safe. Mr. Stout, in "The Keepers of the Light", contributes an exceptionally good story: swift, idiomatic, colorful, with a good deal of sense of character. His style is perhaps too nervous and choppy--the sentences too persistently short and periodic, but it is a sound story, and a vivid one. And Mr. Barnett gives us some extremely readable, and sometimes witty, theatre-notes. Both of these contributors write as if they did it with pleasure, and as if they weren't afraid of being "literary". Of the other contributors, not quite so much can be said...