Word: keying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...key-note speech which, if 100% American, is also 100% hate...
...concert Mr. Whiting will play the harpsichord, the key board instrument which preceded the pianoforte so that the audience may hear the early music exactly as it sounded at the time it was written, over 300 years ago. As the harpsichord is rarely used today, Mr. Whiting's performance will be a novelty full of unique and beautiful effects which are essential to a proper understanding of the old music...
...good old days, according to Mr. Bronk a class in Caesar took great interest in making wooden models of Caesar's bridges. To try such a thing today would only call forth a laugh, mainly because it would be such a waste of time." And therein lies the key to the trouble. A Mr. Hughes says people are "living too fast". Minutes, as if by the touch of Midas, have been turned to gold. The vast economic development of recent years has undoubtedly increased and distributed wealth, but it has also, like all good things, its price. Because...
...would propose what the British Labor Union advocates: the nationalization of all the key industries and when this was accomplished, it would then be time to consider other industries", was the answer...
...where organizers have taken the stump to address the men, only to be promptly arrested and carried to jail. Time and again have I seen men beg to be taken to the station to plead their case in the presence of a magistrate before being placed under lock and key. Often there seems to be no local justice in our industrial towns. When the labor organizer is confronted with the situation of a mayor and local capitalist being one and the same man, he almost despairs...