Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...believe that there has been an increased interest this year in the subject of amateur coaching in American collegiate circles generally, but whether I am correct in this impression or not the matter is certainly one which in the course of the next few years is going to demand considerable attention on the part of Harvard men. It would be well, in view of this fact, to acquire as much information as possible about the practical workings, the advantages, and the drawbacks of the system of amateur coaching as employed in the English universities. The purpose of this article...
...heroine a chorus girl who inherited the school, and by letting the students sing and dance all over the place at social functions, at the Big Game and while Miss Helen Kane is supposed to be taking a music lesson. You can see that the audiences make no demand for any super-ingenuity in the plotting of the musical interludes...
...choruses. The screen fans, however, insist that the story provide some excuse for the introduction that is inherent in the narrative. Naturally backstage stories, where sections of a musical comedy can be realistically shown as part of the atmosphere, supply the most likely field for what the paying guests demand...
...typical of this school and really set the model for it. The vogue has been so successful that such wildly inferior pictures as "Broadway Scandals," "Jazz Heaven," and "The Song of Love," while far from smash hits, seem likely to show a profit merely because they meet that popular demand for song and dance with a touch of the Laugh, Mrs. Clown, Laugh manner...
...platform stood a nervous peasant, Comrade Michael Son-of-Ivan Kalinin, the puppet President of Russia. He started uneasily when someone shouted. "Is Stalin sick or well?" He looked as though he would like to run when the whole hall began to clamor, "Tell us! Sick or well? We demand to know...