Word: soundingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Messiah. Rapt and gleaming-eyed in Cleveland's vast Public Hall sat the delegates when their beloved leader uprose on opening day to sound his keynote. To outsiders he might seem a dim. ineffectual visionary, but to them he was a genuine Messiah. With an artificial tan poppy in the lapel of his white coat. Dr. Townsend settled his long chin down on his high, stiff collar, glued his eyes on his manuscript, droned out a fierce denunciation of New Deal extravagance. Only when it came to a remedy did the author of the plan to have the Government...
...month depart from sound Republican doctrine. His cure was not to stop government spending, but to stop government borrowing. "In essence," declared he, "the system we demand is this: Tax everybody on the amount of money that he spends. We are all spenders. We must buy or die. The more we have to spend, the more we will spend. Hence, those who spend most will pay the most in taxes for the maintenance of government...
...eyed Townsendites, who had been whooping and hollering "Amen!"' all through the speech, climbed on their chairs, made their earlier cheers for Dr. Townsend sound like feeble piping. Magnanimously Preacher Smith beckoned Dr. Townsend to his side. Spotlights speared down, flash bulbs popped as the old doctor put his bony hand in the young preacher's. In the press box, newshawks who had watched the pair in recent days, had seen Dr. Townsend consult Preacher Smith on every move, let him act as their joint spokesman, believed they were witnessing not a union but a usurpation...
...giant loudspeaker stood on the roof of a hangar at Mineola, L. I., last week, and radio and sound engineers trooped out to have a look, listen to its monstrous bray. Developed in the Bell Telephone Laboratories, the apparatus resembled a big searchlight. When it and 18 others like it are mounted soon atop a 100-ft. tower, their combined blast will be the loudest sound ever produced...
...Microbe Hunters. Last week Author-Naturalist Donald Culross Peattie took a leaf from de Kruif's notebook, published a book on the Great Naturalists, from Aristotle to Fabre. Smart Publisher Schuster wrote the incoherently enthusiastic blurb himself, said he meant every word of it. Excerpt: "The sound of wings is in this book, the murmur of the forest, eons of time, undreamed by Moses, the wilderness itself, and continents arising from the sea. Here too are enchanted isles, luxuriant in tropical splendor, leaf-fringed legends, sylvan historians, cold pastorals, wild ecstasies, happy, happy boughs - not simply remembered melodies from...