Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...case with the revival of the play in which Joseph Jefferson, contemporary of Booth, originally made the hit of his lifetime. The production of "Rip Van Winkle" at the New Repertory Theatre is done with considerable artistry, elaborate and delightful stage effects, excellent music, and harmony in every detail. Yet it drags. It drags interminably. On Monday evening the final curtain was rung down at exactly five minutes of twelve...
...Revised Bill, while embodying a multitude of changes in detail, differed from the original chiefly as follows: 1) The head tax was stricken off as "not worth bothering with." 2) Subject to individual modifications, the sums originally collectable over 14 years as taxes were now to be secured by a mortgage held by the Government on the property of the taxed individual or firm. This arrangement is, of course, the "capital levy" in all but name. 3) Instead of resorting to inflation in case of need, the Government would declare a moratorium on certain of its short term obligations, notably...
...Abbot Speaks" is an excellent example of the danger of treating inadequately a subject already handled superbly by a great writer. Whatever else it may be, it is not poetry. But to discuss in detail its obvious shortcomings would be unsuitable. One can only regret the momentary lapse in taste that led to its publication. The question of the propriety of its perpetration originally does not concern us; but if it did, most of us can recall worse deeds of our own undergraduate literary days...
...state of nature. Clothes, whether of starched linen or silk padded with bran are the masculine defense against exposure as a two-legged animal without feathers; and so long as one can keep the skeleton in a more or less endurable closet, innovations looking to the trifling detail of comfort will always meet with a cold reception...
...abstaining, 174, of whom 100 were Socialist Deputies and the rest scattered as to party. Thus the Assembly of 684 Deputies gave Premier Painlevé a "majority" of 32. On that reed he leaned heavily for the remainder of the week, and promised to reveal his fiscal plans in detail to the Chamber should his Government be spared for a little longer...