Word: soundingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Father to his side, But Mrs. had her mind quite set; Before shed take this, Russian, bride She first must learn her etiquette. The four are now Southampton-bound, Where live most all the idle rich, On Long, not Coney, Island Sound, And there, there dwelt the Jealous Witch...
Which does sound as if it came from the same man wrote "The Walrus and the Carpenter...
...less impressive word would convey the dreariness of the discussion) on the nature of true nonsense verse. Lewis Carroll's technique, and informs us triumphantly of the awful libel that the author of "Alice" may have been the inventor of cross-word puzzles. His comments and foot-notes sound as if they had been written for a volume of Thornton Burgess' "Mother West Wind Stories"; among them he convinced one reader that, talk as he may about the technique of Lewis Carroll's nonsense, Mr. Reed never yet say the joke in it all and has somewhat strained his eyes...
...Congress. If he vetoes it, he will promptly be told that Frank Orren Lowden or Charles Gates Dawes is as likely to be the next President of the U. S. as is Calvin Coolidge. If he signs it, he will be called upon to apologize to New England and "sound businessmen" throughout the land, and will be accused of having lost his character as a strong, silent man. Incidentally, he may find that his signature has been attached to an unconstitutional measure. And he will get little credit for signing?as everyone will be told that the signing...
...through a cinema show. Before that he had gulped down two bottles of beer. Before that he had plunged his long Finnish knife into Zina Jukova's warm flesh and through her heart. Last week the High Court at Moscow ruled that the murderer was of completely sound mind, and had acted without malice. He was sentenced to nine years of solitary confinement. Meanwhile questions loomed: "Could Sergei Slovochotov have chosen between killing his fiancee and kissing her? Could Zina Jukova have chosen between experimenting with her sex appeal and keeping still? Were they free-willed tragic fools...