Word: soundingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which the Chautauqua-shouters, sniffing the electric air of a millennium, flap their coattails. The true earnest of a physician's worth outside his consulting room* is therefore the degree to which he refrains from hollow croaking; the degree to which he is conscious and confident of sound normality among the masses from which his clientele is drawn...
...sight of the common interests of the world, by basing their commercial relations on the economic folly which treats all trading as a form of war." This paragraph, and two others that follow might have been lifted bodily from Professor Taussig's "Principles of Economics". They are overflowing with sound economic theory and pious statements. One begins to regret the carping attitude of "The Nations" and its ilk toward those high minded gentlemen referred to collectively as "Wall Street." In order to make the manifesto absolutely clear, Mr. Mitchell gracefully permitted himself to be interviewed. He said, "The manifesto pertains...
...rest of the article, at least that which concerns what Mr. Aswell calls the "human", probably meaning the humanistic, is more sound. Here his desire to get nearer the Universal, to see Unity in Multiplicity, though it be a reiteration of Mr. Irving Babbitt's reiterations of a truth so evident as to be too often neglected, is always excellent in the present absence of sanity in journalistic criticism...
Prevention lies with maintaining sound health, cure with nourishing foods, plentiful clean air, abundant sunshine. (Ultraviolet light, from quartz lamps has proven efficacious substitute for sunlight...
...theatre, staged with impressive formality and harped on by critics for years afterwards, are taken by the participants with such a large calmness. The narrative of how Barrymore came to do "Hamlet," the details of the production, his own notions of the play and the first performances, sound more like a casual account of deciding to play gold instead of tennis than a great actor planning to enter on his greatest artistic triumph. All this is somewhat disappointing; and it may be that, in an excess of caution Mr. Barrymore is hiding behind this casualness. Still, it has a natural...