Word: hitches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...some cases seem foreordained or even meaningless. But this "routine" organization is important. It is only necessary to hark back two years to recall one slip between the cup and the lip, due to bad management. Then the Juniors counting the returns were at fault. But a hitch at any point is enough to disrupt and discredit he whole system of Senior Elections. The dissension, the damaged feelings; the howls of protest of two years ago should be sufficient reminder to each of the Committees concerned that theirs is a delicate task to be performed with care and good judgment...
Only possible hitch in the plans, it was stated by a highly dependable authority close to official sources, lies in the refusal of Radcliffe dieticians to guarantee Miss Temple three portions per diem of Cocomalt (trade advt.) and strained spinach a la Temple, i.e., with luscious slices of hard-boiled egg. Miss Temple, it was added, has already shown the proper Radcliffe spirit by agreeing to wear flat-heeled shoes, horn-rimmed glasses and, possibly, a ribbon in her hair...
...quotations on hitch-hiking could not be obtained, for the Boston representative of the A.H.H.A. had not yet arrived from a meeting of the Association in Houston, Texas...
...stand and, before 5,000 people in the Los Angeles Shrine Auditorium, guided the new Hollywood Grand Opera Association through its first presentation, Aïda. Except for the moment when four terrified white horses seemed ready to jump into the orchestra pit, the opera proceeded without a hitch and made San Francisco's grizzled Conductor Alfred Hertz exclaim: "He showed a mastery of musical forces quite unusual at his early age. He has quite a career ahead...
Thus lined up was a perfect example of a legal situation familiar in every state. Many a motorist has refused a ride to a hitch-hiker for fear of being liable for damages which might occur to him. Many another driver whose guests have been hurt has colluded with them to make the insurance company pay. Drivers with stricter codes of behavior have often been saddled by suits from erstwhile friends. Publicized more than most such cases be cause of the prominence of its participants, the final decision in the McCann-Hoffman suit last week illuminated the status and trend...