Word: details
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...very short period in which to coal, ammunition, clean and paint ship before sailing for the Caribbean. No week-end leave was given. Sailors feared that their regular "Christmas leave," already reduced in the submarine flotilla from 15 to 13 days, would be abolished. Sunday morning a detail was piped on deck to finish painting ship...
...essence the new opera is like the well-worn play: the lovers Marguerite (Camille) and Armand are separated by Armand's doting father whereupon Marguerite dies of consumption. But most of the detail has been revamped, modernized. Important to the plot is the repeated jangling of a telephone bell. The costumes are modern. Mary Garden wears pajamas in one scene, in another a gorgeous gold-cloth gown of latest cut, bright with blood-red camellias. The spirit of the music is modern: a waltz theme winds through it all. There is a jazz scene in the second act where...
...report gives in detail the adventuresome history of the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau, telling how for years it struggled to establish a permanent organization to meet this modern problem. Today, financed by the University, cooperating with the Boston Legal Aid and the Cambridge Welfare Union, and advised by the Law School faculty, with the help of its new practicing counsel, E. J. LeCam, member of the Massachusetts Bar Association, it is able to give its needy clients aid comparable to that of a high-priced law office...
...whole, however, life is livable and looks to the future. "Black Bread and Red Coffins" brings a shadowy nation into clear relief. In the prison, in the courtroom, in the Bureau of Marriage and Divorce, and in the village world, representative personalities are etched in living and human detail...
...throughout it all the bright young men of the press and magazine staffs and numerous other unclassified space-rate artists publicized the Harvard innovation in all its detail and implications, usually, it may be said, with a respectful eye cocked in the general direction of Mr. Harkness and the Harvard administration. who had manifestly provided reams and reams of elegant copy...