Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...golden, hot-blooded loveliness has always been a notable attraction for the truly discerning connoisseur of grand opera, perhaps failed to personify the sudden, mercurial, fate-defeated Carmen. Critics could not forget that she was more Czech than Spanish, that her French was bad, that she was unfaithful to detail, that the "Habanera" should never have been sung from a wheelbarrow nor the "Sequidilla" from the garrison table. They postponed their verdict. But the mass of the audience perceiving these aesthetic errors, clapped and cheered after every act. After the last, they tossed their roses to the stage...
...connection with practically every electrical company in the United States. In collecting the data the following method was used, to each company on the list was sent, in addition to a questionnaire concerning the amount of electric power carried across state lines in 1926, a letter explaining in detail the purposes of the study. When this method of obtaining the desired information failed, personal calls were made...
...films prepared for university and college use will cover much the same ground as those designed for secondary schools, but the titling will be more technical and the subjects will be developed in greater detail...
Lynching is an institution preserved in the U. S. for Negroes by primitive white people. Tuskegee is an Institute preserved in Alabama for Negroes by cultivated black people. Whenever anyone is lynched in the U. S., Tuskegee records the incident in detail, remembers it and at the end of each year publishes a blacklist. The list published last week by Tuskegee showed the following facts about U. S. lynching...
Thus spoke Mrs. Frances Wilson Grayson, as she shut up her Long Island real estate office and climbed into the Dawn to fly for Newfoundland and thence across the sea. Of her "different" Christmas the world gleaned only one descriptive detail: Her Christmas message to the world was a faint whisper out of the air, caught by the ear of the radio station at Sable Island, off Nova Scotia: "Something gone wrong...