Word: details
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...regulations apply only to established corporations or their successors. Fresh promotions, which have never been burdened by the law because they have no corporate history, will continue to use the strict old form. But no longer is it necessary for an old-line company to describe in painful detail every last trivial law suit, every last patent, every last plant built and abandoned years...
...pioneering character. For this reason it is possible that able men from other institutions would be attracted to Cambridge by the new professorships. Since the experiment is one conceived in a liberal spirit and designed to meet a definite need, it should not be thwarted by any difficulties of detail...
WEAVING his heroic story against the grim tragic background of the Armenian sufferings at the hands of their diabolically cruel Turkish masters, Franz Werfel has evolved a novel which for richness of narrative detail and skillful completeness has few peers. The pitiful plight of this downtrodden Christian people reached its climax during the early years of the World War when the young Turks set their oriental cleverness to the organization of their nation as solidified national unit on the Western pattern...
...most critics Stravinsky was most inspired during the four Paris years that followed. His Firebird was a blaze of color, marvelously decorative in every detail. Year later came Petroitchka, with Nijinsky enacting the poor sawdust puppet who briefly had a soul. In that exuberant work woodwinds ran riot and to many they seemed altogether tuneless...
Having seen to the last detail of their preparations for a gala performance of Uncle Tom's Cabin in the Civic Theatre, officials of the Boston Emergency Relief Administration rode out to the Belmont home of Mrs. Cordelia Howard MacDonald. Mrs. MacDonald, now 86 was the original "Little Eva." At the age 14 in her father's theatrical troupe, she scrambled across the ice floes on a stage at Troy, N. Y., ascended to heaven on a telegraph wire. All her life Mrs. MacDonald has been sitting sweetly through performances of Uncle Tom's Cabin. When...