Word: abandoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the Vagabond goes to the Music. Building this afternoon at four-thirty to sing medieval church music, he will rejoice to imitate the careless abandon with which the uncontrollable monks sang their parts. He will feel deep gratitude to the men whose refusal to obey the binding rules of the church made possible the development of the materials of modern music and prepared the way immediately for Palestinian and Bach. He will be grateful, too, that the discordance of the medieval descants will keep his neighbor from noticing it too easily when the Vagabond sings...
...complications of modern industrial civilization. It has given publicity to the thinkers in every field who challenge the existing order. Although it has barely touched the world the undergraduate lives in, (it may have forced him to modify his way of living but it has not forced him to abandon it) yet it has been sufficient to give reality to the difficulties which confront...
...human equality. We have been told our party has deserted the old faith. Speak. Mr. President, speak!" An emotional murmur ran through the black crowd. President Hoover spoke: "The friendship of our part)' for the American Negro has endured unchanged for 70 years. . . . Our party will not abandon or depart from its traditional duty toward the American Negro. ' Then President Hoover shook hands with his fellow Republicans, was photographed with them. ¶While President Hoover was laying the cornerstone for' the new Post Office Department building on Pennsylvania Avenue, one Edward Wells, war veteran, yelled "hurrah...
...thereby saving from ruin not only the lines but also the big hanks which were heavily tied up in them. He it was who rushed to completion in record time the great Rex and Conte di Savoia at a period when Britain's Cunard Line was forced to abandon work on its 73,000-ton liner and the French Line dallied with its new super-Ile de France. Last year genial Count Ciano paid out 275,000,000 lire of Il Duce's revenues in ship subsidies. Since the S. S. Savannah first ploughed her way across...
...interlude and afterwards, discusses it with lurid details. It matters not whether the recent recipient of her favors happens to be among those present or not . . . she is said to dilate upon his ways and wiles, his abilities and disabilities, his prowess or his lack of prowess with . . . consummate abandon. . . ." Miss Hall provided direct quotations from Miss Bankhead's amorous philosophy: "I'm serious about love. I'm damned serious about it now, of all times. I haven't had an affaire for six months. Six months! Too long. I am not promiscuous, you know. Promiscuity...