Word: soundingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gennerich one night in the tense days before the 1933 inauguration when Messrs. Garner, Rainey, Robinson, Harrison, Byrns and others came to confer at the house of the President-elect on East 65th Street, Manhattan. Their deliberations were interrupted by a terrible crash on the floor below, the sound of falling furniture, of breaking glass. Several conferees anxiously rushed down, found young John Roosevelt flat on the dining room floor amid several shattered family relics, found Gus grinning, dusting off his clothes, muttering, "Now, darn your little hide, I guess you'll quit prepping with [kidding...
...rearranging them to make bustled ladies with lions' heads, assassins with angels' wings, strange trees growing from horses' backs, etc. Examining these and other dadaist creations, Poet Andre Breton, who frequently dresses entirely in green, smokes a green pipe, drinks a green liqueur and has a sound knowledge of Freudian psychology, discovered behind all this a newer and better ism. In the autumn of 1924 he wrote his Manifesto of Surrealism, and a word and a school were born.* Excerpt: "Surrealism rests in the belief in the superior reality of certain forms of association neglected heretofore...
Hours and hours of circling through streets of Cambridge in a sound truck yesterday, with a stentorian voice advertising the merits of "Jonah and the Whale", failed to bring the Dramatic Club a capacity audience at its premiere in the Peabody Theatre last night. But the inconsiderable number that did attend the performance seemed very appreciative...
...series of programs entitled "A Survey of the Film in America 1895-1932." This particular series deals with the rise of American film from its crude beginning through the early Pickford era and the famous classics of Griffith down to the first Walf Disney and the coming of sound. The first part of the program will be given on Thursday, January 28, to be followed by showings of the rest of the series on February 9 and 25, and March 9 and 25. The films will be presented at the Institute of Geographical Exploration at 4 and 8 o'clock...
...balance is far in favor of the Conference plan. No qualms should be felt about playing give-and-take with men who may be members of the Cabinet, university professors, or financiers fresh from the mines of Wall Street. They are by no means as unapproachable as they sound, and by accepting the invitation to the Conference show their willingness to confer with their younger and less experienced colleagues...