Word: hidebound
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...would be no dearth of news about winners on this year's Grand National by announcing that the Post Office would follow a ''liberal policy'' in construing the statute about lottery information. That let down the bars. Even the New York Sun forgot its hidebound caution long enough to print the lists of U. S. ticket holders in the Irish Hospital Sweepstakes. Last week, when Miss Paget's Golden Miller won the Grand National at Aintree, U. S. newspaper readers once more enjoyed in full the vicarious pleasure of seeing someone else...
...Berlin, got a contract with the Hamburg Opera where for many months she did bit parts, studying the big roles by herself. One day the prima donna who was to sing in Lohengrin suddenly fell ill and Lotte Lehmann took her place. In her fright she forgot all the hidebound traditions, the routine gestures. But she was so young and unaffected, her voice so richly expressive, that the Hamburgers wanted to hear her in other big parts. She was singing Micaela in Carmen one night while the Vienna Opera director sat in the audience. He had come to find...
...such a scholarly work as this cannot hamper his characteristic style: "During the whole of his life Louis XIV was the curse and pest of Europe. No worse enemy of human freedom has ever appeared in the trappings of polite civilization." By his own enemies called a jingo, a hidebound Tory, moonfaced Winston Churchill has always pined for action. For a politician he has seen plenty though he has never headed his party in power or out. As commander of the 6th Royal Scots Fusiliers in France in 1916, Descendant Churchill took a soldier's interest in war strategy...
...Hour. The Shoreham Contract's complete and unequivocal recognition of his union by the archfoes of organized labor marked the high point of Leader Lewis' career. Undoubtedly he, a hidebound Republican, could never have achieved this success if it had not been for a Democratic President whose New Deal had turned Industry and Labor topsy-turvy. But his foresight and energy in organizing coal miners under NRA, his ironhanded persistence in negotiating a union coal code with non-union operators, marked him as Labor's man-of-the-hour. A ragged broken band were United Mine Workers...
...working at European history and at the social sciences. This seems to be a logical way of trying to comprehend one's environment. At Oxford nearly all the best men are studying Greece and Rome instead of a modern civilization, and they are concentrating on Greek philosophy. Oxford looks hidebound. It is difficult to see how any one who emerges from a prolonged bout with Plato and Thucydides can be ready for "Sex" and "Labor...