Word: learnedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...opera but also beyond the roles to which Japanese prima donnas have always been limited in the Occident-Madame Butterfly, Madame Chrysantheme, Lena in La Princesse Jaune. It was to be a Marguerite, a Lady Marian, a Xenia, that Hisa Koike, after studying music at Columbia University, undertook to learn western make-up methods and practiced them even while playing Yum-Yum. Like the flowers that bloom in the spring, tra-la, her present employment has little to do with her case. Critics, having heard her vocal chords vibrate under drafts from her super-Dempsey lungs, grant her at least...
...beam into a naughty world;- has subtitled it: "Every-day Help for Everyday People." Each monograph is loaded with domestic BB shot, aimed at the human race, fired regardless of target. The chapter headings, "How a Husband Likes to be Treated," "Charm," "Have a Goal," "The Goat Family," "Learn a Trade, Girls," "Trial Divorce," "An Indoor Sport," "Should Women Tell," "Queer Things about Marriage," "Forget It," "The Secret of Happiness" are like newspaper headlines: they promise everything, tell nothing. Mr. and Mrs. Average Citizen in their philosophical moments, if sufficiently steeped in journalese and colloquialisms, might have written these same...
...have always believed that a good school education was sufficient for any business man. This statement of course, does not apply to professional men with brains can learn more things of practical value in two years of hard work than in ten at college...
...looking ahead with a possible view toward winning a berth on the University squad. It is to these latter men in particular that class football offers unique advantages. The opportunities for expert individual coaching in special branches of the game, which after all is the only way to learn, are much better than any where else except possibly on the University squad itself...
...teams comes under their eyes, there will be an excellent chance for promotion to a higher squad, with the possiblity of going even further. With all these features, it will be seen that class football offers a remarkable opportunity to those who are ambitious and anxious to learn football...