Word: soundingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...must have come to Senator Cummins when he read the news of his defeat, eyes were strained from studying long documents, his face was lined, his hair was white; he was 76-but now he would retire to the quiet home of his two spinster sisters, sleep long and sound, muse over his glorious days, write his autobiography. One evening last week he dined with a Des Moines banker, told him with unaccustomed zeal of the vivid political scenes which would appear in his book...
...TIME that have lately been appearing in TIME'S own pages (inside of back cover, July 26). This is my suggestion: that, good though those advertisements are, they are plainly written by some one that has not quite caught TIME style, though that has been his effort. They sound (to me) jerky and adjective-ridden and might gain force if smoothed out as your reading text is smooth. . . . GEORGE BUNBURY...
First, his uncle, a hawklike French general, wedded him to the glorious cause of carving an African empire for La Patrie, with words that made Kipling's "Recessional" sound like a nursery rhyme. Then he was sent to a cavalry camp as a corporal, to fortify his stomach by sleeping near horses and to acquire respect for the Chinese puzzle that is French army discipline. It just happened that he could punch, ride, shoot, drill, sleep, spy, drink, disguise, obey, command and love-his-country better than any one else in that camp, and that his sense of humor...
...last April) Dan had married some one else. What the voters of Texas ought to know was just what part this new Mrs. Moody was going to play in the state if Dan were elected. Would it be a "Jiggs and Maggie" proposition? Jim made that sound like a question almost as serious as the Ku Kluxers, fondness for whom he ascribed to Dan Moody despite the latter's consistent disavowals, and his record of having sent five sheeted knights to the penitentiary...
...sound at the core, I tell you. My life work. . . . I am prepared to sacrifice all ideas of rest and recreation to help the business regain its wonted position...