Word: soundingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sound common-law marriage is usually composed of: 1) a man and a woman both legally competent to make the contract (age, absence of other matrimonial obligations, etc.); 2) their actual and mutual agreement to enter the union faithfully, permanently, to the exclusion of all others; 3) their cohabitation; 4) the length of time they live together (varying in practice from one to seven years); 5) their public and social conduct as man and wife. Children by such a union, the existence of a settled home, and the community's recognition, all tend strongly to confirm the relationship...
...save his country, he asked her to sing for him once more−and there now is heard, apparently issuing from the lips of Corinne Griffith, "You'll Take the High Road and I'll Take the Low." Except for such occasional bathos, and for an effective sound accompaniment of guns and waves, this picture is silent, and the Admiral's orders to his fleet ("England expects every man will do his duty") and his last words to his aide ("Kiss me, Hardy") are shown in written titles borrowed from history and from the novel...
...have given a sense of the unseen enemy pushing back the actual army, now dead, of which these actors are the equivalents. As it is, the soldiers remain stage soldiers, and while the incidents involving them are undoubtedly taken from history, they are not generalized enough to suggest the sound and terror of that retreat or to make war as real as Hollywood directors often made it when military pictures were the commercial vogue. Best shot: an officer waking up his tired company with a drum he has taken from the window of a deserted toy-store...
...informal and secret conference of richest Junkers and tycoons to confer with the tall, imperious president of the Reichsbank when he arrived. In the Fatherland, where such an assemblage represents the colossal vested interests of a score of banking and industrial trusts, it does not take long to sound out the opinions of ''big business." Therefore after only the briefest conference, "Iron Man" Hjalmar Schacht boarded the Nord Express for Paris, appearing to be, as usual, somewhat less gracious and communicative than a snapping turtle...
Addressing a rally of 20,000 Conservatives in Leicester, the man with the umbrella observed, "As Lloyd George himself says, his scheme is as sound as the Welsh mountains. They are celebrated for their scenery. They probably afford pasturage for a few goats. ... To put his scheme into effect would require a Dictator. . . . A Dictator might do it. But we are not going to work under a Dictator...