Word: stridently
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...write about a mystic without making him seem too queer is a distinguished accomplishment. Author Williamson's mystic cuts strident across a maze of conventionalities, but he is never cheap, affected, sentimentalized. His theories may well antagonize, but his understanding of animals, his intuition regarding fellow humans, are faultless, impressive...
...principle may be extended to the art of music, in which tonal variations are evanescent. Great virtuosi, who know how to mingle murmurous, tinkling and strident sounds, might be said to possess the "Great Ear." Master perfumers presumably have the "Great Nose...
...planes. Otherwise smuggling on a large scale threatened (TIME, Jan. 21). Businessmen learned his intention and at once their chambers of commerce besieged the Treasury Department. They wanted their communities designated air ports of entry where foreign planes must land for a customs declaration. Mr. Mellon received some 60 strident demands. But he closed his ears and hardened his heart. The only air ports of entry, he decided last week, would be for the present San Diego, Seattle, Los Angeles, Miami, Key West, Albany, and-more academic than immediately necessary-Newark, N. J.* Intimated as future ports were Detroit...
...Haven, Conn., Dec. 7--Alarm clocks sounded an important note in the theatrical world of New Haven last night. Patrons of a movie palace largely supported by Yale students were rudely awakened from their enjoyment of a band presentation on the stage by the strident tones of a bell such as pierce the skull of many a student on the morning after...
...come to the top trapeze of their profession. The story deals principally with the love of two of the foursome (Janet Gaynor and Charles Morton) and a rather elaborate exposition of backstage life?perennially acceptable theme. The discordant note in the quartet comes with the entrance of a strident villainess (Mary Duncan), done in the grandiose manner of Bara-esque sirens. In the early moments of the piece, when the child-lives of the four devils are revealed, two cinemasters, two cinemisses take the parts of the four devils and are notable for their strong resemblance to their adult colleagues...