Word: soundingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...William Green sounds to me like a 7-year-old boy defying his parents," rumbled John L. Lewis at a huge mass meeting of C. I. O.'s Transport Workers' Union in Manhattan last week. "He speaks with much sound and fury. He goes into a trance and words come forth that are meaningless. He becomes inebriated by the exuberance of his own verbosity...
...Hechtisms, all of which sound better in the acoustics of a theatre: "We [the intellectuals] are always on the right side of discussions, but never on any side of the barricades"; "There's only one thing that's definitely known about God; He's on the side of the winner"; "If you get tired of the Fascist salute, the Bronx cheer is always waiting for you"; "Old love is garrulous . . . like a demented Cook's guide, swooning in front of all the landmarks and monuments"; "I'm a pathetic figure, an old best seller...
British Fascist Leader Sir Oswald Ernald Mosley climbed onto the top of a sound truck to address a Liverpool open-air mass meeting of 8,000 people. The crowd shouted, hissed. He gestured commandingly for silence, promptly received a volley of brickbats. Gashed on the left temple and back of the head, he fell, was carted off to a hospital with brain concussion. In the riot which he left, 20 people were injured, 15 were arrested...
Speeches by Payson S. Wild, acting Master of the House, Eric T. Clarke '38, head of the Dance Committee, and Donald E. Burbank, Jr. '38, head of the Athletic Committee, will feature the dinner. Afterwards motion pictures, accompanied by a portable sound machine, will be seen in the Junior Common Room. Walt Disney cartoons and football and racehorse shorts will be shown...
Your problem is a not uncommon one. I had somewhat the same trouble when I was in college myself. It is a matter of common knowledge that prolonged concentration on a small dull colored object, particularly when accompanied by a low murmuring sound, is a very effective method of hypnosis. In my day I used to combat the effects by thinking of something particularly ghastly, like boiled turnips. But now, with college food so good, you will have to think of something else. There is an ugly rumor, however, that a dish called Vienna "Lead" Roll is still being served...