Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last spring while in Miami I discontinued TIME because of an article equally unnecessary in detail and almost as distasteful to me as this one. But I have missed the paper and this June 28 issue is only the second number of my new subscription...
...with her stern resting on the bottom. Smashing seas imperiled the small boats and crashed together the four pontoons, rendering the re-submergence extremely hazardous. The first man to volunteer for the job of opening the valves was an engineer and before orders could be outlined to him in detail, he impatiently jumped over the rail into the swirling waters and clambered on one of the pontoons. As he reached to open the valve, a wrathful wave rushed over him. For a moment he and the pontoon were out of sight, and the next moment the pontoon reappeared unpopulated. There...
...custom of "damning the play," the growing attitude of the T. B. M. coincident with the rise of industrialism, the conservatism of the pit, the popularity of triple bills, the indulgence of the audiences in Old Price riots--such a picture might easily have become a confusing mass of detail and lifeless documentation, but from them all Prof. Watson, as the result of much reflection upon an astonishing amount of materials and an exhaustive research among theatrical relics, constructs a beautifully organized exposition, with convenient summaries for those who grow tired of the pageant and frequent reiteration of his thesis...
Tramp, Tramp, Tramp (Harry Langdon). Frantic farce cannot be estimated in detail. Such a critique would simply be a catalogue of gags. Tramp, Tramp, Tramp is such a catalogue. It is one of those pictures in which a man gets into bed with an electric fan and emerges in a storm of feathers. There is a plot about a cross-country race to advertise a shoe store. Mr. Langdon is often funny. The picture is often funny...
Bookiets describing the school in detail may be secured by writing to the Secretary of The Geneva School of International Studies, 60 Broadway, New York City...