Word: hidebound
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mature of heart. She isn't stopped because other people are not doing it. She drives to Mexico alone. If something appeals to the mature person, if there is no really cogent reason for not doing it, let us do it, let us not be bound by hidebound convention...
...were being run by Judge Lynch himself. When Martin protests, he is placed under barracks arrest. In the last five minutes of the play, this monstrous parody of justice turns out to have been only a bureaucratic bungle: Gregory is cleared, Martin warmly praised, and the hidebound brasshats reveal with twinkling good humor that they had been suspicious of the real villains all along...
...prettiest scenes are those between Fisby and the uniformly lovable natives, who first offer him gifts and finally devo tion. The funniest scenes are those between Fisby and his hidebound, befuddled blockhead of a colonel (well played by Paul Ford). The most individual scenes are those in which David Wayne, as a native interpreter full of peasant wisdom, comes engagingly before the curtain and comments on the story...
...precise Yankee ways, Dr. White, now 66, is no man to be hidebound by conventions. So it was no surprise to his stuffier colleagues when his latest contribution to the New England Journal of Medicine was titled: "The Relation of Heart Size to the Time Intervals of the Heartbeat, with Particular Reference to the Elephant and the Whale." It included notes on the slow heartbeats and long electrocardiograph waves of nine circus elephants, and an account of Dr. White's whale hunt off Alaska last summer when he used harpoons as electrodes to get EKG readings of a wild...
...when A.F.L. Founder Samuel Gompers died, aged 74, after 38 years in the federation's presidency, his heir-expectant was Matthew Woll of the Engravers' Union. But wing-collared Matt Woll was too hidebound a craft unionist for John L. Lewis, then as now president of the United Mine Workers. Lewis knew that he had no chance himself and, besides, he hoped to be U.S. Secretary of Labor in President Coolidge's Cabinet. He put forward the most conservative of his fellow mine union officials, Bill Green, and Green was elected...