Word: soundingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sound Wine Critic...
...wriggle awfully self-consciously. You say: "... Many sound wine critics con-cede . . . that in its class . . ." etc., etc. What is a sound wine critic? I am a sound wine critic. It is confounded snobbery to think that the only people who can tell good wine from bad are experts who spend their short lives sipping and spewing out, sipping and spewing out. never swallowing a mouthful for fear of perverting their taste. I myself have no fear of perverting my taste. And I am just about the only wine critic in the world...
While Mr. Eden, whose good looks and idealistic pro-League reputation are reputedly worth some 1,500,000 votes to the Government at election time, remains Foreign Secretary, sound Sir Robert was thus given the widest conceivable authority and mobility in conducting British foreign policy. Technically he will still be subordinate to Mr. Eden, advising the Foreign Secretary only on request, but the terms of the new appointment show that Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain intends to use Sir Robert much as President Roosevelt uses Ambassador-at-Large Norman Hezekiah Davis, to, handle big diplomatic jobs wherever they crop...
...half-dozen suites and tone poems (Daphnis et Chloe, La Valse, Rhapsodic Espagnole, Alborada del Gracioso, Ma Mere I 'Oye, Le Tombeau de Couperin, et al.) which have long ornamented the symphonic programs of three continents. A miraculous orchestrator and an adept at poetic description in sound, fastidious, precise-minded Ravel had, following the death of Claude Debussy, succeeded to the place of No. 1 Impressionist composer. Born in 1875 in a Pyrenees town, of a Basque mother and a French-Jewish-Swiss father, Ravel kept all through life an affection for Spanish folk music, allowed its idioms...
...abroad in the world in its present proportions, the incidence of all kinds of illness will remain high. In addition to specific physical disorders, we cannot escape the mounting problems concerned with the total personality of young men. These problems may interfere with normal intellectual progress, with development of sound social reactions, and defeat a man's capacity to determine even the choice of a career...