Word: shattered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nicely sorted out according to pitch in a broad band or spectrum like the colors of the rainbow. In this imaginary scheme, a pure note such as the sound of a tuning-fork will fall neatly into one line on the band; while complex sounds, like the voice, will shatter apart into their several components like sunlight in a prism. With this picture in mind, and knowing that in the field of optics the most evanescent tints can be reduced to the familiar primary colors, the recording engineers are in a sense no more awed before the mixed...
...group of mothers in Scarsdale, N. Y. last week set out to do something about the radio programs to which their children listen. They had no new kind of program to suggest but they bitterly declared that present programs "shatter nerves, stimulate emotions of horror, and teach bad grammar." They put their case before that great pedagogical clearing house, Teachers College at Columbia University. They got the United Parents Association to put mental hygienists on the subject. They voted, and took votes among their children, on their preferences among radio-broadcasts aired between...
...knows the cute trick of discovering biscuit crumbs on people's waistcoats, who pronounces "elementary" with the grand air, who jumps out of high balconies onto villainous necks, who wields acetylene torches and shoots to kill. This is no Sherlock Holmes, this is Hollywood's "Masterful" attempt to shatter an illusion...
...Railroads, buildings, old automobiles supply immense quantities. Old rails, cars, locomotives, machinery, pipes, automobiles pour into the big scrap yards to be cut or broken up, carefully sorted. Giant shears leisurely chomp a steel freight car into bits. Oxyacetylene torches slice up rail's, girders, beams. "Skull-crackers" shatter cumbersome castings. Twisted sheets and waste are bundled by hydraulic presses. Great electric magnets on overhead cranes pile the fragments into heaps or load them in gondola cars for the blast furnaces...
...Aren't We All? (Paramount British), Director Harry Lachman helps to shatter the glittering surfaces of Author Frederick Lonsdale's play by hammering them with irrelevant elaborations. His cast-with the exception of Gertrude Lawrence-does likewise. Hugh Wakefield delivers parlor witticisms with a smile more vehement than that of the late Theodore Roosevelt. He is Lord Grenham, an ill-behaved but jolly curmudgeon whose experience in getting himself out of romantic scrapes stands him in good stead when he is trying to right things between his son and daughter-in-law. In addition to poor casting...