Word: decorums
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...master of the quartets and the symphony, will be discussed by Professor Hill in the Music Building at 12 o'clock. Hayda, who was beloved by the Viennese for his dainty and melodious operas, new as known as the last of the 18th Century realists, a composer of severe decorum and sriet technique. His place in musical history by the excellence of his instrumental compositions into which he introduced the freshness and lyric quality of his native Croation folk-tunes. Baydn's natural idiom, for that matter, was a heightened and ennobled folk song. The lecture on the life...
Expelled. Two moons have filled and waned since the S. S. Ryndam steamed from Manhattan, a "floating university" carrying 450 students, males, females (TIME, Sept. 27). Until two weeks ago, classes, lectures, excursions proceeded with fitting decorum. Then, at Yokohama, five students slipped down a hawser, escaped to nearby Tokyo, and put on there a drinking and "necking" spree at the Imperial Hotel. . . . By a vote of the Student Council aboard the Ryndam escapaders were promptly expelled, packed off for the U. S. on a returning steamer as the Ryndam steamed serenely...
...Grand Canon, Marie and the Pacific, Marie! Thus does the American press take to its heart the beloved of the Balkins and worry those who, with absurd faith in the direct desire of all Americans at all times for democracy, see in this primativism an accute absense of decorum...
...Debated with exemplary decorum a Labor resolution calling for an inquiry into the propriety of Cabinet Ministers associating themselves in any way with corporations having contracts with the Government. Laborite Arthur Henderson alleged that Minister of Health Neville Chamberlain is associated with at least two concerns having a total of 21 government contracts. Premier Baldwin championed "the principle established in 1906 of permitting Cabinet Ministers to hold honorary corporate directorships," and the Labor motion was squelched by a government majority of 246. Cried Laborite Henderson: "It seems that all Conservatives, like Caesar's wife, are held by courtesy above...
Next day, cheered by the hundreds of Mohammedans resident at Paris, Mulai Yusef dedicated the first Mosque to be erected in France. Gazing proudly about he remarked with satisfaction that all women present were veiled, conducted themselves with decorum...