Word: soundingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...youngster of 18, Frank Lloyd Wright arrived in Chicago in the spring of 1887 with three years of engineering school behind him in Madison. U. S. architecture was then on the rise from a period of post-Civil War jerry-building, and with the death of a great and sound Easterner, Henry Hobson Richardson, the year before, Chicago, rising from its ruins, had become the centre of excitement. Richardson's successor as No. i U. S. architect was an immaculate, brown-eyed little French-Irishman of haughty brilliance named Louis Henry Sullivan. Young Frank Wright had not been...
During his researches, Dr. Jolliffe ran across a bartender who had drunk ten one-and-one-half-ounce jiggers of whiskey every day for 40 years and ate little solid food, but whose nerves were sound. Investigation revealed that the bartender poured every jigger of whiskey into a ten-ounce bar glass, filled it with milk, and drank that. The 75 ounces or so of milk thus consumed daily provided him with plenty of Vitamin...
...many who had forgotten-thanks to the series of superficial cinema roles that have enveloped her-how sound an actress Alice Brady is, her warming, plainspoken, broguish portrayal of the Widow O'Leary was a revelation. By long odds the most convincing performer in In Old Chicago, she makes handsome Tyrone Power seem something of a pip-squeak as Chicago's boss, reduces the whole caboodle of headlined stars to the ranks of supporting players...
Crashing Hollywood (RKO Radio). Oldtimer Lee Tracy, Joan Woodbury and a group of recidivists from the RKO stock company make melodrama among the studio's sound stages. Old hokum, new style...
...Frank Robinson, now 52, is frank to admit, such a story "makes me sound nuts." Nevertheless he tells it to explain the founding of Psychiana, a non-Christian (but godly), mail-order religion which has enrolled between 500,000 and 600,000 people in 67 countries, and which is probably the only faith in the world which guarantees "money back if you are not satisfied." As a mail-order gospel, propagated by advertising (in 400 newspapers, 50 magazines), Psychiana passed a milestone last week when Founder Robinson motored from Moscow to Portland, Ore., placed an order...