Word: soundingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Though the Preaching Mission declined to sound off in the press, when its members arrived in Birmingham a few days later they showed pleasure at the inclusion on one program of Dr. Channing Tobias, national director of Negro Y. M, C. A. work. Obliged by municipal ordinance to sit in separate sections, Birmingham Negroes gladly attended meetings, shouted "Amen" and "Glory Be!" The No. 1 Missioneer, Dr. Eli Stanley Jones, led off the opening meeting: "Constantly I remind myself that the Romans said, 'these Britons make the most unlovely, thick headed slaves we have here. . . . No good will ever...
...automobile parade, which will be equipped with sound apparatus, will tour throughout the state, speaking at every college and at many other towns besides. Speakers were recruited at the meeting yesterday afternoon by Raymond C. Dennett 1L, head of Phillips Brooks House...
...regular Friday and Saturday Symphony concerts of this week have an engrossing sound. Mozart's Symphony in A major, (Kochel no. 201), is the first number. Composed in 1774 when Mozart was 18 years old, it represents an important stage in the composer's development of the symphonic form. Despite the comparatively tender age at which it was written, the work can hardly be classed as an early one for Mozart wrote his first symphony when eight years old. This will be followed by "Les Offrandes Oubliees" by Olivier Messiaen, a young French composer and one of four...
...when unpleasant tones are heard. Mr. Boguslawski likes to toy with the idea that he may be the 20th Century reincarnation of Poland's Frédéric François Chopin. Agile and talkative Moissaye Boguslawski's interest in maintaining circulation in his fingers has sound precedent among other pianists. Josef Hofmann and Paderewski dip theirs in hot water. Percy Grainger slaps his on his kneecaps. Only pianists' stimulant of which Pianist Boguslawski disapproves is whiskey. He drinks hot tea, likes to accompany it with thick sandwiches of corned beef...
...learns to swallow air. This he does by relaxing his throat and gullet, and gulping. Quickly a big bubble of air accumulates in the stomach, which the patient soon learns to treat like a bag-pipe's bellows. At his will he burps up puff after puff, makes sounds. First controlled sounds are "gut," "hut," "hoot," "who." To the uninitiated they sound like strangled grunts. Although these people eventually learn to enunciate clearly, their voices always have a flat, lifeless tone...