Word: demolishment
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...well arouse an even more heated controversy between violent detractors and equally violent defenders. Those who would be in touch with the newest movement in dramaturgy cannot afford to miss the opportunity of seeing this Dos Passos play. For it is around plays such as these, which utterly demolish the conventions of the traditional drama, that the theatrical battle of the moment is waging...
...least two of his romances. The shadow of the silver screen is never lifted from this one. The plot is based on the legend of an Amazonian queen who loved her bitterest foe. In modern Madrid, Conchita Douglas, a woman of spectacular proportions who did not hesitate to demolish bare-handed a sinewy gentleman who caused her annoyance, fell in love with the son of an old enemy. Realizing that she was too old for him, she resolved to sacrifice herself, told him (falsely) that she was his mother, and projected him disinterestedly into the arms of young and charming...
Rumors of a still greater change are in the air, to the effect that the Cooperative Society will soon demolish its present quarters, and replace them with a new and modern building. No information was available as to the exact date when this change will take place...
Tradition is a wonderful thing--but many more inspiring traditions than a seven o'clock eye-opener have passed into oblivion. It is no longer considered quite the thing to demolish Mr. Conant's impregnable iron door and freeze the bell full of water--chiefly because it is no longer necessary to do this in order to avoid Chapel. But if it ever was desirable or necessary to arise at seven o'clock, that time like the days of one-horse shays and tallow candles, has fled. Pity the dexterous but unfortunate bellringer forever doomed to face the world while...
...Charles Blount Jr. '18 writing from Lyon, France, to the Alumni Bulletin makes use of the familiar "reductio ad absurdum" argument to demolish the case of those who contend that no one should "deny to any young man the opportunities of a Harvard education." And he indulges in some caustic irony at the expense of those who, on the grounds of democracy and liberalism, would throw open the gates to every eager young...