Word: cut
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...allotment of students to form the various groups or "houses." It is the purpose of the Harvard authorities, probably a wise one, to make each "house" a cross-section in personnel of the college as a whole. Their selection of the men who are to live together will, therefore, cut across the grooves in which undergraduate social life naturally flows. This poses the question whether as a result there can be any real cohesion within the new groupings, without which, it is plain, they will fail utterly to function as intended. For the whole idea behind the experiment...
...opera. The Metropolitan, unmolested, has stayed Italian and German. The paths of the two never cross. No new group has risen to threaten them. Wagner, thus, in the U. S. has stayed the prerogative of the Metropolitan. It has been given as the management believes the public wants it-cut and trimmed to make a comfortable afternoon or evening. But many an operagoer has been dissatisfied with the cuts and the production in general. Hence with enthusiasm last week they hailed the coming of the German Grand Opera Company* which promised two complete cycles of the Nibelungen Ring, uncut...
...passing the timbrel each year for money irks a good manager. President Osborn declared that he was going to stop it. He needed $8,000,000 more endowment. If he did not get it, forthwith he would dismiss 35 employes, suspend others, set a stationary wage scale, cut off trustee support of field expeditions, reduce the number of publications, and close down many other museum activities. Such cessations would strangle educational and scientific work of one of the world's best natural history museums. It was a lugubrious threat. But the trustees admonished President Osborn to make himself content...
There are also interludes of dullness which can easily be cut out. A. E. Thomas. writer of the play, follows the custom of this season by prowling onto the stage himself. He impersonates a Vermont district attorney with an accent which he must have learned in the damp parlors of Manhattan...
Tracy Drake, boniface of the smart Drake and Blackstone Hotels, Chicago, protested, last week, against a new action of the Illinois Bell Telephone Co. to cut commissions on income from public booth phones. Said Mr. Drake: "We're all slaves of the monopolistic telephone company. You know we have to pay the loss on bad slugs." To which, William D. Bangs, general counsel for the telephone company, queried: "Is it possible that the clientele of the Blackstone and the Drake should drop bad slugs in the phones...