Word: flagrant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nity. Her Un bel di vedremo was perfectly patterned to describe Butterfly's faith in Lieutenant Pinkerton's return, her defiant refusal to believe that he could have for gotten her. Other Butterflies have sung the aria with greater flourish, built it up to a more flagrant climax. Susanne Fisher's voice, though not powerful, is true, clear, delicately expressive. She uses it with discriminating taste and intelligence. To prepare for a role she plays through the entire opera score a dozen times be fore she sings a note. Such painstaking study had its effect last week...
Accusing Mather of flagrant violation, Representative Dorgan, in an interview with the CRIMSON yesterday, threatened to put teeth into the Teachers' Oath law. As Democratic representative of Ward 17, Derchester, Mr. Thomas Dorgan introduced the Oath Bill into the Massachusetts House last January...
...recent Lowell and Elito House Dances is sufficient justification for my statement. Add to it, however, the knowledge of the City Police, of the Yard Police, of the House Members in general, and of the Tutors in particular that drunkeness and abuses of House rules are no more flagrant than formerly, that they never were serious, and that, if one examines closely, they are definitely decreased in intensity and number, and one finds the apex of the Lowell House hierarchy alone in his ignorance...
Congressman Fish, admitting the existence of faults in the capitalist system as it now stands, saw a remedy for the more flagrant abuses in the future in such measures as the Securities Act and the abolition of tax-exempt bonds with a view to putting capital into the hands of industry rather than into those of the government...
...from the Soviet Press last week was the fact that President Roosevelt has withdrawn the moral approval which 165,000,000 Russians were happy to think he extended when he recognized the Soviet Union (TIME, Nov. 27, 1933). Until they read that President Roosevelt has charged their Government with flagrant breach of faith (TIME, Sept. 2), that Moscow replied last week by rejecting and refusing to argue the charge, and that Secretary of State Cordell Hull thereupon recorded the Red breach upon white paper for future reference (see p. 11), Russians will continue to believe that Moscow & Washington...