Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Walter Nelson '31 will be at the Hemenway Gymnasium every afternoon to give instruction in gymnastic work, it was announced yesterday by Norman W. Fradd, director of the Indoor Athletic Building. This opportunity is being offered to meet a demand from students interested in heavier exercise, including tumbling as well as work on the rings and all kinds of apparatus...
...soprano roles in Gilbert & Sullivan operettas are most effective when sung by small, arch, comely ladies. The contralto roles demand singers made up to look stout and ugly. Katisha in The Mikado, in particular, should be "a most unattractive old thing, tra la, with a caricature of a face." For this role last week the brothers Lee & Jake Shubert signed up oldtime Contralto Ernestine Schumann-Heink, 70. With a company of seasoned Savoyards, the Shuberts' Mikado opens Oct. 16 in Wilmington, Del., will play in Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia and other Eastern cities...
...author quotes numerous secret diplomatic dispatches from Tokio to Washington during the Washington Conference, which were decoded and translated, showing that a policy of delay on the part of the British and Americans was sure to force the Japanese to retreat, as they did, from their demand for a ten-to-seven ratio. From this one would conclude, that, with the Black Chamber closed, the United States went into the London Naval Conference and will go into any future conference at a disadvantage, unless foreign powers follow Secretary Stimpson's example, "Stud poker is not a very difficult game after...
...Josiah voiced ringing confidence that the superior fiscal organization and longer experience of London in handling complex international transactions will keep the City's services and the pound in brisk worldwide demand. 3) "The greatest friend of New York," concluded Sir Josiah, "could not say at the present time that New York's financial dealings with foreign countries have been characterized by a steady, courageous purpose or by intimate and far-seeing knowledge." For the cashing of bills of exchange "on any large scale a very elaborate machine of financial knowledge and financial courage is required, and this...
...Fairchild com pany settled out of court this year. The Vought case is pending in New York. The claim against the Government lay dormant until recently when Claims Com missioner Hayner H. Gordon reopened the case. Should his claim be upheld. Inventor Esnault-Pelterie was reputedly pre pared to demand $2,500,000 royalties from the Government alone, untold sums from commercial builders in future suits...