Word: either
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...avoided the too celebrated local gulyas (goulash) but found delicious another Magyar dish, chicken spiced with various condiments. The afternoon was spent in exploring the old and modern castles of Buda and the shops, boulevards, subway, and parks of Pest. These two cities (Buda and Pest) lie on either side of the Danube and form together the Capital (Budapest). Since it was already late, the Royal Opera was indicated and fulfilled its reputation as among the finest in Europe." Vienna, Austria. "Four hours by rail sufficed to reach Vienna between breakfast time and luncheon. Grown used to falling cabinets...
...swords in an endless battle with the Priest, meditative ascetic. Critics found it "striding with energy and lifted head, large- molded, full-throated," "excellent music for a feature film, to depict the struggle of the upper and lower natures of man. . . . concentrated noise," "displaying nothing of striking originality in either melody or harmony. . . ." The sleek, confident folk in the orchestra and the boxes, their less fortunate fellows four flights up, received it warmly, clapped and clapped until Composer Howard Hanson,* tall, lean, with Ichabod legs, came out and folded himself into thank-you bows...
...home," declared President Harry C. Abell of the Association, "has ever been heated efficiently with coal. It is either hot, cold or indifferent." He predicted universal household heating by thermostat-regulated furnaces whose pilot lights would only need to be lighted in the autumn, turned off in spring...
...Dartmouth had beaten Yale no one would have said much, either way. Yale teams develop late and Dartmouth has, for nearly three years, been undefeated in the East. But when Yale, with a passing game, scored a touchdown in the third and another in the last period to beat Dartmouth, 14 to 7, people said a lot, both ways...
...England babies became fertilizer for the prairie soil; that the Puritans, nurtured on illusion, are wild asses run amuck when illusion has withered. Whoever he is, he once wrote (44) a novel and sent it to the late Walter Hines Page, who returnee it with the gentle words: "Either I am pretty crazy...