Word: arduously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...need never, on any occasion, be mistaken for a bellhop, a street car conductor or train caller [TIME, Jan. 25]. He can avoid such embarrassing moments by merely following the precedent set for him by those men whose stripes or stars or whatnots are the result of long and arduous service: No officer on the retired list wears a uniform, any time, any where. His uniform automatically retires with his active status. No officer on the active list wears a uniform while traveling. In fact, he never wears a uniform off the station or post unless it is unavoidable. Admiral...
...miles of "translucent grain." Life on the Rice Coast was an amiable, well-fed, leisurely affair, with planters' incomes ranging from $5,000 to $70,000 a year, with "factors"' in the cities taking care of all buying and selling and regular crops requiring careful but not arduous attention. Even the many slaves had an easier time of it than elsewhere in the South, since their labor was usually finished between one and four o'clock in the afternoon...
Like Bodanzky, the chunky guest conductor engaged Metropolitan stars to sing the title roles. He swelled the orchestra to 73, omitted Siegfried so that Flagstad would have a less arduous schedule, reversed the order of the operas so that Gotterddmmerung could be given on the Saturday it would not conflict with a big football game.* Graciously, he staggered performances so that stars could keep appointments elsewhere. Reiner clashed only once with Stage Director Armando Agnini, over a new $1,800 steam apparatus for Gotterddmmerung to help Valhalla go up realistically in flames & smoke. The conductor barred the steam because...
Ever since repeal the gruesome Monday ceremony (attended by two maintenance men with rakes and sacks) of collecting and burning all the odds and ends left on the field, under the stands, and on the seats, has grown less and less arduous. Bottles are placed in the middle of the huge pile of programs and labels burned off. Amid the popping of corks and the vaporization of many dregs, the maintenance men lean on their rakes and size up the visiting team from the size and quality of its "bottled goods...
...Conants sailed for Europe on September 23, also on the "Queen Mary," for a brief rest following their arduous Tercentenary activities. They planned to travel leisurely through England, and possibly spend a few days in France...