Word: soundingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...alarming part of the Victory speech was Roosevelt's determination to name himself as supreme genius of the new social order. He has no monopoly of humanitarian ideals nor are he and his clique the only ones who can write sound laws. To build the ark of his "more abundant life" he needs tons of objective, outside advice and a lot of rechecking. So long as he adds every no-man to the rolls of the Union League Club, so far will the construction fall short of the blue print...
...what to say about it. I love it, I love to play it, and I love to hear it!" Such was Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong's eminently satisfactory comment on the Art of the Hour, Swing Music. The greatest trumpeter since that day at Jericho when "The people heard the sound of the trumpet and the wall fell down flat." (Joshua VI, 20). Louis Armstrong, whom Hugues Panassie, the author of "Le Jazz Hot", considers "not only a genius in his own art, but one of the most extraordinary creative geniuses that all music has over known...
...corner came loose. ''I felt everything slipping. There was nothing to hang to. So I hollered and jumped into the net. I hit the net just before the staging struck it. The net sagged slowly and then the ropes popped and the net gave way with a sound like thunder. It was like a slow motion picture...
...modern and efficient as the liquor trade is the aim of the Women's Christian Temperance Union's present $500,000 educational campaign. Last year it distributed a four-reel sound film entitled The Beneficent Reprobate in which appeared no drooling drunks or starving children but a frog named Elmer who passed out in a solution of 5% alcohol. W.C.T.U.'s national president is clever, plump, 65-year-old Mrs. Ida B. Wise Smith. An astute politician and public agitator, Mrs. Smith clicks off such anti-liquor statistics as the following: Rejections of insurance applicants for "heavy...
...while attired in a flannel shirt and trousers. This is the comic climax of the picture. It is followed by the formal climax in which, at a song festival in which she is appearing as a gesture of loyalty to an orchestra conductor (Henry Stephenson). Miss Moore favors the sound track with Schubert's Serenade...