"Acoustical" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Harcourt Room in House of Commons, a spacious dining-hall cunningly contrived with lack of acoustical properties that make it difficult to hear what a conversational neighbour is saying. In time of political stress this useful, as preventing lapse into controversy at the table. Homeward bound from his last Antarctic trip, ERNEST SHACKLETON discovered three towering ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, June 17, 1914 • Various |
