Word: cumbrously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...himself cannot enter his own City of London. The Awful Man is Sir William Phené Neal, Lord Mayor of London. Sir Phené Neal is also Chief Magistrate of the City of London. In his great stiff robes, in his flowing full-bottomed wig, and adorned with his cumbrous, jingling golden chains of office, Sir Phené Neal personified last week British Justice - the world's quickest, most impressive, best...
...scenery and costuming is done with a taste and lavishness that is seldom found in productions of this kind. The chorus, unfortunately, does not equal its environment. As a rule the dancing is cumbrous and at time faulty in execution which seems inexcusable, and a great many of the girls appear to have good friends in the front row which detracts from the effect of the thing...
...past the Social Ethics department has been a neglected makeshift composed of men from various allied fields without unity or central control. This lack of definite leadership has retarded progress, and crippled research. A few years ago some attempt was made to simplify this cumbrous arrangement by the introduction of the tutorial system, but even this failed to stimulate any original thought in the unwieldy organization...