Word: moods
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lest Seniors who could have used even more time for Divisionals be moved to wrath by the idea, we take the liberty of pointing out the editor's confessedly licentious mood." And yet the Alumni did not take a vacation; why should the Alumni Bulletin...
...important part. Mr. Bragdon, who has done a good deal of work for Mr. Walter Hampden, has recently come into special prominence as a result of his work at the church of St. Mark's on the Bowery, where ornamental lighting has been employed successfully to vary with the mood of the service...
...which are still further proof of his skill at orchestration. They contain a wealth and variety of tone coloring, and clever rhythmic devices which relieve the monotony of the waltz rhythm. In form these waltzes suggest the "Valses Nobles et Sentimentales" of Ravel, where there are seven of contrasting mood and character, and the closing one a resume from fragments of the others. The most effective of Mr. Hill's are those of less sentimental character, especially the first in D major, the third in F major, and the sixth in F sharp minor...
...white man's instinct tells him that no penalty can be too severe, and an appeal to reason is futile. His natural resentment, fired by mob spirit and an underlying antagonism to the negro race, flares up uncontrolled. No matter how thoroughly he may agree, in a dispassionate mood, to every man's right of fair trial; no matter how well he may know that the offender will be punished by the courts, all that is forgotten in the heat of the moment...
...sings. But behind both waits and communities has always been the same genial, good-fellow feeling; the spirit that buffets shopping-crowds without losing its smile, braves snow and slush for errands of charity, and drains its purse in rival generosity. Whenever man want to express a mood he cannot put in common words, he turns to music and dresses it as a song. The carols are the expression of Christmas; no one can hear them without catching a tinge of that infection which was able to transform even old Scrooge...