Word: soundingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...marching two blocks to union headquarters with the crowd at his heels. Before he abandoned his room, he stormed: "In my opinion this is the action of a lot of irresponsible individuals. . . ." The session at union headquarters was behind closed doors but newshawks heard loud yells and the ominous sound of falling chairs. Next day Mr. Martin flew to Manhattan to address the Women's Trade Union League...
...boasts that he got his Star post "because I believed I could make musical criticism readable even by the deaf." As Corno di Bassetto he succeeded partly by being flip, partly by avoiding, to the scandalized amusement of his colleagues, the technical aspect of music. Nevertheless, Shaw had a sound background. With the aid of his mother and a singing teacher who had moved into their Dublin house, he had developed a skilled but "uninteresting" baritone voice, had learned the piano and mastered in great detail a tremendous lot of musical scores, mostly the operas of Meyerbeer and Verdi...
...University, including its maintenance of academic freedom under Presidents Eliot, Lowell, and Conant. In the counsels of the University he contributed a hard-headed common sense, often expressed in a picturesque vernacular, that presented issues in their clearest and simplest form and aided greatly in arriving at sound conclusions...
...when women and children are ruthlessly slaughtered in the streets by death-dealing bombs and the poisonous gases, and when the world is racked by the blind passions of men stirred to mad frenzy by demagogues of Fascism and Comunionism, there is a great need for sound thinking, and intelligent application of Christian ideals. If these lecturers can give us a practical slant on the solutions of the problems of today, they will have been extremely valuable...
...them are apt to pose the purely philosophical question, "Are we doing right by our boys to let them go on losing like this? Shouldn't something be done about it?" And then the man behind the Herald Tribune says, "Do you suppose they're getting a really sound grounding in fundamentals?" After this the third one over in the window rouses himself violently from his lethargy by drawing on his almost dead cigar and states, "It's not so much the fundamentals, but the don't seem to be getting the plays." No direct word of rebuke, of course...