Word: detractions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...construct a fitting war memorial makes a combination of aims appear the happiest release from a difficult situation. The addition of any sort of bell-tower or purely memorial structure to the already polymorphic architecture of the Yard would merely increase the existing aesthetic confusion, a circumstance which would detract appreciably from the dignity of its purpose. A larger and more beautiful chapel would both serve the end of a memorial and avoid the stigma of utilitarianism...
...memory is not at fault, the original architect was John La Farge, a considerable part of whose plan was embodied in stone. One regrets that a page of TIME should carry what is at least unfair, even if not inaccurate. Doubtless you understand that I do not wish to detract from the fame of Mr. Cram. I know you wish to present the truth and the whole truth...
...successful one, however, and his conception of Mrs. Pampinell's efforts to disclose the hidden genius of the members of the favored circle by means of amateur theatricals is shrewdly presented. He misses his purpose of satire in his desire for the ridiculous; yet this lapse does not detract from the spectators enjoyment of the mishaps that befall the amateur actors...
...Golden West, based on a drama by David Belasco, produced at the Metropolitan with Caruso and Emmy Destinn, did not long survive,* nor did the three short operas Il Tabarro, Suor Angelica, Gianni Schicchi, given their première at the Metropolitan six years ago. These latter failures could detract little from his fame. Tosca, La Bohème, Madame Butterfly, Manon Lescaut are part of the regular repertoire of every opera company. Wherever a fiddle scrapes, his songs are heard. He left behind him an unfinished opera Turandot...
...valued his health. The freshman picked himself up dumb-founded, tears of humiliation in his eyes and hating Haughton. P. D. had had no intention of being mean or unkind, but nothing was to break into the background he had set for us, nothing detract from our line of thought. Later he looked up the boy, explained the situation, told him he was doing, his manager-ship job all right, and the boy was lett happy and holding P. D. in the same respect and admiration that we all felt for him willing to carry out unquestioning his slightest wish...