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Word: soundingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...famed Wagnerian basso, announced that he was "sick and tired" of opera, said the public is tired of it too. He, who has rarely sung twice with the same makeup, is tired of the beards of Hans Sachs, Wotan, Hagen, King Mark. He has signed a contract to make sound-cinemas, believes that "everyone will soon be running to the cinema to take their music in this new form." In Chicago Louis Eckstein wrote a check for $103,458.50, half the deficit of the Ravinia Opera so that an ardently enthusiastic Chicago public might continue to have summer opera. Said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Oct. 7, 1929 | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

...traditional John Harvard among the graduates has been overlooked . . . "Good old John of the Class of '96 whose presence has been assured only by the name of Harvard and the possibility of meeting classmates and friends . . . and whose appreciation of music is limited to an enthusiastic tingling at the sound of a few old familiar football and drinking songs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COLLEGE GLEE | 10/1/1929 | See Source »

...life at all. Station-Master Mclnteer got into his new blue roadster and sped to neighboring towns to borrow warrants. After a short, intense campaign he reported to General Butler that the last "big" bootlegger had left town. Merchants dusted off their stock, waited anxiously for the sound of the band leading the Marines back to Quantico...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Quantico's Quandary | 9/30/1929 | See Source »

...used for partitions, kennels, stage props, mirror backs, outhouses) west of the Alleghanies. The Gypsum-Insulite agreement is to merge their distributing resources in all parts of the world since gypsum, like Insulite's products, is used in building. Mined, gypsum is used for moulding plaster, plasterboard, floor tile, sound insulation for talking cinema studios...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Deals: Sep. 30, 1929 | 9/30/1929 | See Source »

...down, a scratchy, Churchillesque voice began to speak from somewhere: "In ex pressing my thanks to you for your kind welcome, and to our hosts for the all too flattering terms in which they refer to me . . ." Mr. Churchill flushed, grinned, heard his own speech -which had been sound-recorded without his knowledge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sep. 30, 1929 | 9/30/1929 | See Source »

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