Word: sounding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Because of the war, he said, and its effects on neutrals, the U. S. had begun informal diplomatic conversations with neutral governments. He made it clear that these conversations involved no world plan for peace. But they were preliminary inquiries looking toward the establishment of a sound inter national economic system, a world-wide reduction of arms. Their chief aim: to provide economic stability after...
...trombonists around that manages to sound anything at all like the famous Jack Teagarden, his solo on "I Surrender Dear" (Columbia) being a good example...
...Forward, over the top! I can't any more, the snow is too deep. Deep and heavy. The metal freezes to my fingers. No, it is hot, it burns, it burns them right off. I must hold on tight. Tighter. Now it is all still. Not a sound. Just a hum, the hum of silence. On and on. I don't hear any more. I don't see any more. I can't any more...
...Lord of the Sea Bottom. Before he had talked for long, listeners got the idea. Reichs-Rundfunk-Gesellschaft was up to a slick trick in the European radio war of harsh words. As Mr. Churchill's voice purred on, it was suddenly interrupted by a tremendous clamor of sound-effect boos & catcalls. Then the Nazi announcer spoke up. "This," he explained, "is the record of how Mr. Churchill's recent speech at Manchester was received by his audience...
...Earl of Chicago, persevering Robert Montgomery is at some pains to show them they were wrong. As Silky, a sly, post-Prohibition Chicago gangster, who inherits an ancient and honorable British earldom, young Mr. Montgomery proves that his criminal instincts are sound. His triumph is all the more thumping because, as a movie, The Earl of Chicago never quite knows where it is going. Starting as a comedy in Chicago, it turns into stark drama under the impact of British manners and manors. Silky, once a carefree, moronic young mobster, snapping rubber bands at a pair of shapely legs (their...