Word: insistent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...understand, has praised 'Desire Under the Elms.' She declares it to be a great play, and that it teaches a great moral lesson. You know the plot, I suppose. That plot is typical--all too typical of the sort of thing that is being exploited in New York. Producers insist on neurotic plays, plays that means something. The public or a very definite part of it, supports them...
...those who insist upon every man's right to "indifference", there is no horror greater than the meaningless bombast of college yells. Those chaotic confusions of trills, barks, and sensless syllables arouse, and justly, the disgust of those who hope that college is a breeding ground of intelligent manhood. But is there in the recommendation of the Council any suggestion that such idiocies are to be perpetrated? The present cheer, when efficiently and enthusiastically supported by the stands, resounds majestically within the Stadium and the Bowl. There is no threat against the dignity and strength of the traditional cheer...
...that `the Boke Man is a Dunce in being Wise.' I call for some antidote for such learned societies as the Natural History Society, the German Club, and the French Club; for the establishment, in short, of `The ignorance Club of Harvard College.' This I do not recommend; I insist upon it as a necessity. If we do not take some step in this direction, if we calmly submit to seeing the requirements for admission slowly added to, if we patiently listen to the announcement that the requirements for a degree will advance from 33 1-3 per cent...
...gold, and it is complicated by contrary theories of international trade. Threatening factions between the former allies cannot be overlooked. The danger of over-whelming the French government with bankruptcy is very real, for present loans are being subscribed on the assumption that the United States will not insist upon the collection of its war loans...
Publisher Hearst had the honor last week to announce the marriage of his Hearst's International and his Cosmopolitan magazines. Consummation of the union was set for early in the new year. The International, a feminist bride, will insist for a time on International-Cosmopolitan as the family name, but will later succumb to custom and be of one name as well as one flesh with the Cosmopolitan...