Word: grasp
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three's a Crowd was the next Johnson job. In 1931 he was employed on The Band Wagon. His merry-go-round scene and the Pare Monceau set used a two-way revolving stage for the first time. His colors were strong, but not loud, and his grasp of scenic design was flawless. Then indeed was Albert Johnson hailed by critics. Since that time he has had as much work as he could do: Face the Music, Americana, Let 'Em Eat Cake, As Thousands Cheer, Ziegfeld Follies. He has found time to tour Sweden, visit his father in Moscow, have...
...raised the price of his fishing worms to 25¢ per 100, explained: "I make them self-cleaning by packing them in moss for a couple of days before they are sold. This wipes off the slime as the worm crawls, and makes it possible for the fisherman to grasp it firmly...
...untainted record of the German bandmaster's son was spoiled. It was while Lucrczia Bori was singing Debussy's "Recitative and Aria of Lia," from L'Enfant Prodigitc, that Mr. Stock's hitherto intact baton went sailing in three pieces from his passionate grasp into the ranks of the scraping violinists, one fragment just barely missing a plunge down the low back of the diva's gown. Mr. Stock, unaccountably prepared for the emergency, picked up another stick from his desk and went on restrainedly as ever...
...bowls would be populated by persons, who, at present, are kept away from the games because of financial considerations. Any demands for reduced ticket prices consider the dual goal of adding to the income of the H.A.A. while at the same time bringing the football games within the financial grasp of the student and general public. If a mean could be hit upon, and the attractions of the major games could be capitalized, both would be attainable...
Individual efforts will, of course, differ, but it is clear that all three universities are working toward the same educational ideal: to allow undergraduates to obtain a more complete, unified and a deeper grasp of specialized fields of study, and to place more intellectual responsibility upon the shoulders of the student himself. At the same time there is the desire, being gradually accomplished to raise higher and higher the educational standards of the universities, adapting the program more and more to the needs of the advanced and brilliant student and less and less to the lacks and gaps...