Word: soundingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...street, a canyon between high office buildings, was suddenly filled with a flat sound like someone beating a rug. Piercing the racket was Coffman's shriek: "Corinne, don't kill me!" Corinne blazed away until the gun in her hand was empty, yanked another gun from under her coat, emptied that into the twitching, still screaming Coffman. When the racket stopped, Coffman lay still. Calmly, Corinne surrendered...
...Physical Laboratory in World War I. One mine brought in for "Lindy's" inspection was retrieved by a brave diver who went to the bottom alone to get it. Report was that the triggers of the new mines were found to be so sensitive they responded to sound waves as well as magnetism...
That Anderson is often concerned with deeply serious ideas, and has had the guts to take the hard way in the theatre, is beyond dispute. But the sound playwright who long ago wrote What Price Glory? and Saturday's Children has gradually given way to a fuzzy cosmos-gazer. Anderson is the most flatulent and pretentious of U. S. dramatists because he seldom does justice to his grandiose conceptions. The verse of Key Largo will not stand comparison with such contemporary dramatic poetry as T. S. Eliot's or Archibald MacLeish's. So little feeling, indeed...
...weekly broadcasts in Radio City's scientifically sound-deadened Studio 8-H pushes an audience of dowagers, politicians and musical who's who that tops the Metropolitan's opening nighters for mink and boiled shirts. Toscaniniacs come from far & wide. From Indianapolis...
...From a lady in Hamilton, Ohio: ". . . this glittering coruscation of impalpable sound. ... I fled to my bed determined that I should never again be so vulnerable to such perfection. I didn't have the strength to dance, or laugh, or cry, or shout...