Word: soundingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Today the entire Harvard crew corps went aboard the yacht "Corsair" at the invitation of its owner Mr. J. P. Morgan '89, to be entertained with a cruise down Long Island Sound. The weather was bright and warm and in the forenoon, the "Corsair" anchored in a sheltered bay where the oarsmen took advantage of a quickly rigged diving boom and indulged in an hour of swimming and moderate exercise...
Ohio is sending Robert A. Taft, tall son of the Chief Justice of the U. S. On the platform will be Ohio's professorial little Senator Fess, to sound the whole great convention's keynote. He will be Candidate Hoover's floor manager. In the Ohio delegation, besides patriarchal Representative Theodore Elijah Burton, will be short, rotund Charles W. Seiberling, one of the rubber brothers from Akron. Delegate Seiberling filed his candidacy on the Hoover ticket without knowing that his older brother, Frank A. Seiberling, was running on the opposing Willis slate. Charles W. telephoned Frank...
...Grand Street Follies are built upon the eminently sound principle of burlesquing all recent attractions at Manhattan theatres. A sophisticate must loudly giggle, when Albert Carroll comes on the stage impersonating Laurette Taylor or when Dorothy Sands pretends she is Ina Claire, lest neighbors in the audience suffer from the illusion that he has not viewed the original from which the parody derives. Yokels, too, are compelled by their anxious timidity to give deceitful titters. Since almost all Manhattan theatregoers fall painfully into these categories, it was perhaps unnecessary for Albert Carroll and Dorothy Sands to make their burlesques...
Observers who scanned, compared and digested the conflicting & partisan despatches which flowed from China, last week, were convinced that the Japanese Staff dicta were impartial, enlightened, basic, sound...
...professor's favorite child who had been allowed to stay up for a bit of the party. Content that the child should be made so happy, the old history professor wandered off for his evening walk, wondering if his enduring tenderness for Lorie was an evil contradiction of his sound intellectual belief that nothing was eternal but the past, that is to say, death. Pondering on these things, wondering too if justice consisted of more than sympathy, the professor trudged through the fog, down by the river, and home again by the rustic bridge. At the gate a servant awaited...