Word: soundingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stressed the psychoanalytic implications of the story and told it in modern language. To The Play Room audience Cocteau's attempt to make the legend significant in modern terms seemed so sincere that his anachronisms, his references to Theban nightclubs, and the sprinkling of slang did not sound forced. Jean Cocteau, once called "the most charming young man in Paris," has always been a good showman. He has frequently set Paris on her ear with his expressionistic ballets. His surrealist film, The Blood of a Poet, produced visceral chills wherever it was jeered or cheered. His pictures drawn under...
...good time, however, and it is this type which goes out into the cold world and becomes actors, singers and directors like James Stuart, Joshua Logan, Ned Wever, Frank Chapman, Phillips Holmes, Myron McCormick, Bretaigne Windust, Jose Ferrer. These have created in the Triangle Club a small but sound tradition of showmanship which the 49th annual production -Fol-De-Rol, which began its tour...
...making a series of observations at the surface of the giant hole, he was able to record the velocity of the sound in the layers which it penetrated. But he has not yet had time to compare these velocities with these computed from ordinary surface measurements...
...told of how he recently dissuaded a prominent editor of spelling "kidnaped" with one "n" instead of two, by reading Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven" as it would sound if all the double "p's" were made single. He quoted the lines...
...matter of intellectual discipline has a great deal to do with the question of the value of thinking. For it does not mean that teachers who are predominantly sound are dull, or backward because they are conservative. In every department of the University will be found professors who have led the parade in their field. It would be insulting to the average student to name them: they are legion. It is equally blind to claim that the faculty has been bred on "booklearning which destroys enthusiasm," when the ranks of every school in the University are filled with...