Word: soundingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...magnificent working of the Federal Reserve system and the inherently sound condition of banks have already brought about a decrease in interest rates and an assurance of abundant capital...
Romance of the Rio Grande (Fox). One of the things sound pictures can do most effectively is make portraits of unfamiliar places. In spite of its melodramatic story and the pidgin-English used by the characters, Romance of the Rio Grande is a highly atmospheric account of the routines of a big Mexican rancho, its noises, difficulties, fiestas. Baxter and Moreno, respectively grandson and nephew of the ranch owner quarrel to see who inherits the layout. A new girl named Mona Maris has a shrill voice and wiry body that suit her role as an orphan-pensioner living...
...article, is the movie editor of the New York Herald Tribune. In this capacity he has gained for himself the reputation of being one of the country's leading screen critics. His close connection with the motion picture industry through the recent period of its change from silent to sound production makes him peculiarly suited for the task of tracing the trend of the "talkies...
...Sterling Library, now nearing completion, is done in a style as near to modern Gothic as possible without departing from sound tradition, a style combining grace and strength. To break the monotony of large stretches of wall, the stone used in decoration is varied from place to place...
...learns to talk by imitating the sound of speech. The deaf learn by imitating the sight of speech. Both deaf and blind, blue-eyed, brown-haired Helen Keller learned to talk by imitating what speech felt like, beneath her fingers. Aided by her devoted, lifelong teacher and guardian, Mrs. Macy* (nee Anne Mansfield Sullivan), the prodigious Keller has been a U. S. phenomenon since the age of seven, has won without benefit of favoritism a college degree cum laude (Radcliffe), has cinemacted, lectured, written books, corresponded in French, German and English with her international friends?the blind, deaf, sick, poor...