Word: frequent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Results of Mrs. Smith's publicity campaign were ironic. She found that before she took charge of the school, riots had been a routine affair. During her regime they became less frequent but because of the White House party and because Congress had appropriated $100,000 for improvements, anything that happened in the National Training School for Girls was newsworthy. Last summer, a controversy between white and colored inmates as to whether Joe Louis was a better boxer than Jimmy Braddock started a free-for-all fight. Month ago, a fire alarm set off to increase the excitement...
Although the Freshman and Varsity squads will make frequent use of the new facilities, nevertheless, the law students will receive the most benefite, and with 71 squash courts available for the University's use, the huge demand for courts is expected to be taken care of satisfactorily...
Perhaps more discussion about the Union Committee has reveled around its method of choice than anything else. "Undemocraticl", "Arbitrary", have been the most frequent criticisms. But, as Mr. Marshall says, "it's the best method we've been able to work...
Play Wizard Abbott has had uncommon success in the last few years pulling rabbits out of shabby theatrical hats and then turning them into ermine. Angel Island is the first produced playwriting attempt of Mrs. Howard Angus, wife of a Manhattan advertising executive. She is a frequent writer of magazine thrillers, but her chief avocation is etching, which she studied under Joseph Pennell. Mrs. Angus has called herself Bernie (short for Bernadine ) since she began to write for magazines. She believed editors were more receptive to male manuscripts. Satisfied with Angel Island, pleased that Hollywood...
...Morgan in his chapter Behind the Ceremonies, points out that the canonization of a Catholic saint, although it is at least as elaborate as the British Coronation, is never rehearsed. Canonizations "being purely religious exercises the idea of rehearsal is repugnant. . . . These grandiose functions are held at such in frequent intervals that the performers, except the Pope, the Pontifical Court and the College of Cardinals are never the same. [Yet] they must appear spontaneously perfect, as if each single participant had known his part for a lifetime and acted from inherent impulse. . . . One interesting particular is that gifts of candles...