Word: soundingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ruined weekend belonged to Mr. Hoover. His Memorial Day holiday in Manhattan was rudely interrupted when the headless, handless, footless corpse of Peter Levine, 12, kidnapped from New Rochelle last February, was washed ashore in Long Island Sound. This was the first recurrence since 1936 of the post-Prohibition atrocities which FBI thought it had stamped out by relentless sleuthing. Last week it was promptly followed by another in Princeton, Fla., a hot-dog hamlet just below Miami, on the highway to Key West. There chubby, blond James Bailey ("Skeegie") Cash Jr., 5½, had been...
...other old cinema scraps, to an alert entrepreneur named Emil Jensen. Wary Mr. Jensen began operations by trying out The Son of the Sheik in Washington. When it broke all house records, he decided to invest a little money in reconditioning. With a musical score and a few elementary sound effects, the picture opened in Boston three weeks ago. By last week, it was apparent even to Mr. Jensen that, whatever he had paid for it, his antique was one of the box-office hits...
...lead a strike against a company in which Seton Sr. is a director. When she has to correct her father for failing to catch her sister's nance's name, she says: "It's Case, not Chase, father-too bad, Chase had such a pleasant banking sound...
Life at Eton is full of strange and inhuman punishments for Lower Boys. They tremble at a summons from "The Library," dread the tutor's ticket which carries penalties ranging from a sharp look, or writing 100 lines of Latin, to a sound tanning. But Eton's humbling birch rods, fagging and games are no match for the educational effect of Eton's snobbish traditions. Today it is still true of its products that "Etonians as a class are not popular with non-Etonians...
American Television Corp. (formerly Communicating Systems, Inc.) manufactures two receiving sets (sin. screen for $150, 5-in. for $250). Both sets receive only pictures. Sound must be received on the shortest wave band of a five-band radio set, or sound reception can be added to an A. T. C. set for $15 to $17 additional cost. A. T. C.'s president, founder and owner is former Theatre-Electrician Samuel (''Money") Saltzman...