Word: soundingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were rude and demanding with the stewards, they made the decks and public rooms as untidy and dirty as I have never seen them on a German boat, were noisy during concerts and made as free with others' deck chairs and rugs as with their own. It may sound petty, but over a week of constant bad manners gets on your nerves...
Most of the songs U. S. folklorists collect are regional curiosities or quaint survivals that sound strange to the average American. Overlooked by such specialists is the great mass of songs the average American sings, songs that are as familiar as bathtubs or chewing gum. These songs go out of fashion into limbo. But they are authentic U. S. folk music, nonetheless...
...sharp eyes and ears miss very little that is written or said about U. S. education, last week issued his annual report on the state of the nation's biggest business.* Mr. Sargent, prefacing the 23rd edition of his famed handbook of private schools with a 160-page sound-off,† found the state of education more than normally alarming. During the year private schools, for example, were sharply criticized-luxurious Lawrenceville's Headmaster Allan V. Heely went so far as to call them an expensive and perhaps useless luxury. Independent old Mr. Sargent seconded the motion, thereby...
...netted $10,236,000. Last year, although its gross business rose some $4,000,000, its net fell to $7,039,000. Reason: I. T. & T. took a $3,561,479 loss on foreign exchange, for many good sound I. T. & T. earnings in foreign currency turned out to be pin money when translated into dollars...
...befeathered, beflowered and bemused-sat humming them, a crowd, many of them oldsters, peered at 255 sane exhibits, murmured brightly: "Isn't it wonderful to see real painting again?" First of the eleven prizes went to Chauncey Ryder, 71, for a harmless landscape; other prizes to sound, conservative Frank W. Benson, 77, mountain-whittling Gutzon Borglum, 68. Herself a little dim about who had won the prizes, Donor Logan purred comfortably: "But they're all my old friends...