Word: crispers
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...best thing in the show is Ray Bolger, who dances in his own long-legged, rag-doll fashion-without even trying to imitate the crisper style of Jack Donahue. In one scene, as elegantly leggy as a giraffe, he ambles and ogles his way through a wonderful soft-shoe shuffle. Whenever Bolger is on hand, Silver Lining turns to pure gold. Otherwise, it is richly colored, but only medium-grade...
...from an oboe-sounded A set at 847 vibrations a second, two vibrations above the century-old tuning fork of George Handel. Then at the Congress of Vienna, military bands discovered that by raising the pitch of their instruments they could ring out sharper fortissimi during the day and crisper waltzes at night. By 1846 the London Philharmonic was trilling Bach fugues after tuning to an oboe A of 905 vibrations. In 19th-Century U.S., where overheated concert halls dried out the instruments, the pitch rose also...
...delicate age of the judges that causes this traffic jam. It is another the failure of the judicial framework to keep pace in size and flexibility with the needs of a growing country. Indeed a seventy year old justice can hand down a crisper opinion,--and many a trial lawyer knows it to his pain,--than one of forty, for the very reason that by his years of training in the law he knows the answers...
...look at Harvard. He visited "Copey," who stared at him and said: "Young man, I trust you are not planning to write any sketches." To an impertinent youth who suggested a headline to describe a fire : "Hollis a Holo caust, Copey a Crisp," he countered, "Nonsense ! 'Copey Crisper Than Ever.' " Once Professor Copeland was nearly at a loss. It was discovered that an old Harvard rule permitted the Boylston Professor of Rhetoric & Oratory to keep a cow in the yard. Young Harvard whooped, dashed out to buy "Copey" a cow, was with difficulty restrained...
...appearance of the fifth number of the Advocate in its improved form, however, the tensed muscles of early detractors have perceptibly relaxed, and a noticeable feeling grows among the unliterary and the extra-porticum that the paper, rather more than ever, has something individual to say. Physically, is is crisper to the touch, its Caslon old-face pleasanter to the eye. As to delights beyond the eye and finger-tips, the new Advocate seems to carry behind it a surer authority and a genuine masculinity. Abandoning abstraction, the creation of several new departments, the brightening...