Word: childishly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Gieseking is a hulking sensitive German with a curiously childish face. When he plays he hunches over the keyboard, puffs and snorts in a labored way. But his virtuosity is complete. His Bach has an unrivaled facility and grace. He dares to be deeply romantic with Schumann, Schubert, Chopin. His Debussy is more subtly tinted than any to be heard. Last week in Manhattan Gieseking opened a three-month tour. He, too, will give recitals all the way to the Pacific Coast, appear as soloist with the Seattle, St. Louis, Boston and Cincinnati Orchestras...
...very happy to have this opportunity to add a word of welcome to the Freshman Class. You are about to join the company and share in the associations and traditions of a great University. You have put away childish things; you have graduated from the nurse strings of school rules and regulations, of a perscribed existence, of standardized thought. You have been thrust into a larger, freer atmosphere, in which your career and your conduct, your success or failure, will rest largely in your own hands...
...roster. Board Member Alfred Emanuel Smith issued a letter of benediction. Special League tickets were issued to the 13 member houses then open. Meanwhile from the offices of nonLeague producers and "outlaw" brokers issued rumblings of war. ''Blacklist . . . conspiracy!" hissed Legshowman George White (Flying High). "Half-baked . . . childish!" snorted Producer Herman Shumlin (The Last Mile). A League executive tried to conciliate Mr. White: "Forget it, old-timer . . . and help us clean up this rotten situation which has made ticket distribution a 'racket.' " Producer White was adamant. He threatened to start a move among producers that would...
...drink at home with considerably more technical skill and social grace than we now possess, we will need the saloon as much as ever." Says Seldes: 100,000 speakeasies flourish in the U. S., not to satisfy the national taste for liquor but "our pride and a childish illusion of wickedness, a 'tawdry romanticism." No friend to Prohibition, Moderate Drinker Seldes believes in freedom to drink when you want to, to refuse a drink when you want to. "[The drinker] knows that drunkenness is a great pleasure. All he asks is that it be allowed to remain...
Although "fagging" has been abolished at some institutions, many a middle and upper-class Englishman likes to believe that the rigors of public school life fit youngsters to become Backbone-of-the-Empire. Evidence of the childish cruelty which Fag Fairhurst was made to suffer was given at the coroner's inquest...