Word: soundingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Kuyumjian, Anglo-Armenian novelist by pen-name Michael Arlen (Piracy, The Green Hat, etc.), would arrive in the U. S. coincident with the publication of his new novel, Young Men in Love (TIME, May 2). Either ignorant of Mr. Kuyumjian's movements, or reluctant to spoil the effect of sound publicity, Doran & Co. did not tell the press until last week that Mr. Kuyumjian had sailed, not for the U. S. but to Peru...
...diminishing utility seems to work in the world of athletic panaceas and to date this report which parallels in some ways the plan proposed recently by President Hopkins of Dartmouth, has failed to stir up the looked for storm of discussion. And yet the suggestions are sound, the changes practical in the extreme. Now that the excitement and novelty of the first cries for athletic reform in the colleges has died down, the general attitude seems to be one of mild approval in theory and of indifferent tolerance in practice...
...Hurry!" cried President Doumergue. Came a suction-sound, "Zsoouk!" M. Herriot, his duty done, swung his large body out the door, urged his legs to a run, let go, lurched but did not fall...
...merchant. His unimportant love affairs, his inconsequential pokings at life with a stick, fail to acquire emotional value or intensity by virtue of the magenta draperies which muffle the recital. Yet when Author Stern comes to realize that writing prose does not necessarily demand substitution of fervent ellipsis for sound and conventional grammar, she may well write a good book...
When he read this telegram, Marshal Pilsudski, Dictator, Premier, War Minister and national hero, sprang up, touched, flattered, to telephone the aged General Buchopicki full permission to die with the consent of his old commander. Telephone operators plugged fast at the sound of Marshal Pilsudski's imperative roar, the call went through instantly, a nurse answered. Said she:"General Buchopicki is dead...