Word: labelling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Eva Gauthier announces a song-recital she does not need to label her songs with the conventional "first time anywhere" in order to attract the musically alert. Fifteen years ago Eva Gauthier established a reputation as a sensitive purveyor of interesting, untried songs. At her debut in 1917 she sang the first Stravinsky songs ever sung in the U. S. In 1924 when skirts were at knee-length, she caused more talk by appearing in a subdued, trailing gown and singing the songs of an upstart named George Gershwin. More pigeon-plump now than when John Singer Sargent sketched...
...that Yale has been accused of securing unjust exemptions, the possibility takes on extra force. The university golf-course, according to press reports, has been transformed by academic magic into a botanical gardon. Dormitories and gymnasiums have received the addition of recitation rooms, in order to justify the educational label...
...wait is galling in its futility. Moreover, when the crowd is finally admitted and allowed to stand in the vestibule for a half hour before the start of the concert, its impatience and indifference to smoking prohibitions create a disorder and fire hazard which are sufficient in themselves to label the present system highly unsatisfactory...
...Carpenter, like many another of his countrymen, has seen fit to dispense with substantial proof or to recognize any merit whatsoever in his victim. Enough for him to garner particular weaknesses apparent in a number of American colleges, to amalgamate them as if characteristic of the whole, and to label the composite, "American College" Attacked with a critical eye for definite proof and clear understanding of conditions, the article collapses about its author's ears...
...shape, not discoid [shape of many medicinal tablets], each having the word 'POISON' and the skull & crossbones design distinctly stamped upon it. . . . The tablets are to be colored blue . . . are to be dispensed in securely stoppered glass containers on the exterior of which is placed a red label bearing the word 'POISON'. . . ." No other drug in the entire Pharmacopoeia need be colored or shaped so distinctively...