Word: soundingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...government operation of railroads, a question not under debate. And he had quoted from the late great Laborite Samuel Gompers to improve his general argument, without explaining that the Gompers quotation had reference to Government operation of railroads and that alone. These things about the "Socialism" speech made it sound like just another political speech, and bad politics at that, because Nominee Smith was left with an obvious retort. Moreover, as any student of recent political history knew, many a member of Nominee Hoover's own party stood with or near Nominee Smith on the specific proposals described...
...Arbiter Benito Mussolini made known his will that "club," "cocktail," "trolley," "tram" and other foreign words which have crept into Italian shall be expunged. Furthermore notice was given that all patriots will distinctly sound and roll the Italian "r" particularly in "Roma...
...Dearold. comes a college picture in which real college boys, bedrooms, dining halls and bleachers are photographed, and as an accompaniment to which an authentic Princeton locomotive and the song "One Keg of Beer for the Four of Us," sung by authentic Princeton undergraduates, is recorded on a sound device...
Wild duck, of many breeds, should be hunted, in warm jackets and waterproof boots, near Currituck Sound, N. C., Barnegat Bay, N. J., marshy shores along the Atlantic coast, on long dark lakes in the middle west and in club-blinds along the Great Lakes. In these last, at Sandusky, near Cleveland, President Cleveland used to go hunting...
...first overtures of reconciliation, it was Gilbert who conceded everything, agreed to Sullivan's wishes, then blandly pursued his original intent. William Schwenck Gilbert was early initiated to drama. At two, he was kidnaped by Italian brigands?his parents were visiting Naples?and redeemed for £25, a sound investment. At 15, he ran away from school to be an actor, but he was sent back to his Aristophanes and Virgil. He became instead a soldier, a clerk, a barrister, and to all outward appearances...