Word: soundingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...quite agree with Subscriber Connolley in what he has to say with regard to TIME'S cinema reviews. They sound to me as though they were written by a moron or by some old crab who should be working for the Anti-Saloon League...
...Dearborn's Mayor Clyde E. Ford revealed that his second cousin, Detroit's manufacturer Henry Ford, had offered a home for the garbage of Detroit and vicinity. His plan: to reduce garbage to grease, fuel and fertilizers at the Ford plant. Turning garbage into grease may sound to inexperts like catching mumps to cure measles, but to the Detroit city fathers it means a saving of several million dollars. The city will collect the garbage, deliver it to the Ford reduction plant; all further costs will come out of the Ford pocket. A Ford-operated garbage-to-grease plant...
...black mane, the bushy eyebrows, the beard running up to the eyes, the broad and lofty forehead and cranium, 'like the vault of a temple,' powerful jaws 'that can grind nuts,' the muzzle and the voice of a lion." A cold-water-bather, long-walker, sound-sleeper, lover of wine and fish. He needed women but liked them guardedly. Said he of them: "If I had been willing thus to sacrifice my vital force, what would have remained for the nobler, the better thing?" His heredity predisposed him to tuberculosis and alcoholism while enteritis, syphilis, weak...
...occasion was the announcement that he had become Chairman of the Board of a new Five Borough Trading Corp. (his first venture in business outside of politics). The Five Borough, fostered by Jerome B. Sullivan & Co. of the New York Curb Exchange, is to finance "small, sound, growing businesses" for the benefit of the people, to save them from losing their money to tipsters and bucketshops...
Death Problem. In London one Leslie Faber talked, acted in sound-film White Cargo, died shortly after its completion. Pretending uncertainty whether to exhibit-living and speaking-a man who was dead, the producers asked advice of celebrities. "Show it," said Sir Gerald Du Maurier. "Think," said someone else "what it would be if we could now have a talking motion picture of Henry Irving in The Bells...