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Word: soundingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Result is that many a smart cinemagoer is as likely as not to snigger at the West Coast's idea of haute couture. The greater credit, therefore, to producer Walter Wanger that in building a show on women's styles, he managed to make the styles sufficiently sound to be featured in a recent issue of Vogue magazine. Taking their cue from those unsung, expert, wholesale dress manufacturers of Manhattan's 7th Avenue who were asked last winter to guess what women would be wearing this fall, Hollywood designers Omar (né Alexander) Kiam, Irene and Helen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Aug. 30, 1937 | 8/30/1937 | See Source »

...Barkley won, spoke in tribute to his successful rival. Franklin Roosevelt actually did not appear in person but Vice President Garner, wise, red-faced old man of the Senate, read the President's eulogy of the new Leader, a letter ending with the felicitous phrase: "He knows by sound instinct that on occasion party harmony is aided and abetted by close harmony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Hell & Close Harmony | 8/23/1937 | See Source »

...that instant there came the mounting whistling scream of a falling bomb and a blast of sound that smashed every window and almost every glass in the Cathay bar. Instantly another followed, landed full on the Palace hotel across the street. In the lobby of the Palace stood United Pressman John R. Morris. He wrote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA-JAPAN: 0.185416666666667 | 8/23/1937 | See Source »

...sound of hissing steam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Oh! How Much of Sorrow! | 8/23/1937 | See Source »

...extra hair to his own black beard and worked out an arrangement which took three hours each day to apply. He studied all the existing records of Zola's life and the Dreyfus case. At home he spoke his lines into a dictaphone and played them back for sound. He mastered characteristic gestures: the irritated twirling of the pince-nez, the contemplative tapping of the stomach, the sudden bursts of laughter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Prestige Picture | 8/16/1937 | See Source »

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