Word: needless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan last week was held the annual Mother's Day luncheon of the Maternity Center Association. Cried Yale's Physiologist Thomas Wilcox Haggard: "In this country 16,000 women give their lives every year in childbirth, and 10,000 of those deaths are needless. Meanwhile, we celebrate Mother's Day. How utterly typical of the worst of adolescent public opinion is that flower of commercialized sentiment. A rather shameful procedure that, a hypocritical gesture typical of a people who believe they can replace a deep obligation by a shallow sentimental flourish...
...Needless to say, President Conant has abolished all such trimmings. As "Time" would say: "For him no food-money...
...becomes increasingly acidic on the subject of Henry's laziness, not a few spectators may be reminded of those unpretentious little Irish genre comedies of the Abbey Players. The parallelism goes further in the wake scene, after Henry is supposed to have gone off despondently and drowned himself. Needless to say, Henry reappears, alive and happy in a store-bought suit and brown derby, his "projeck" a success. First-week audiences seemed immensely pleased when Henry outwitted his onetime white employer, sold for $10,000 an option on some land which had only cost him $1,000. Magniloquently, Henry...
...best recordings in recent months is that of Cesar Franck's "Variations Symphoniques", recorded by Walter Gieseking and the London Philharmonic Orchestra (Columbia). The full sonority and subtlety of the piano have been reproduced with amazing fidelity. The playing of Gieseking is, needless to say, of the highest order, to state it conventionally. The composition itself is one of the most intriguing of its kind. It is really a set of variations for piano and orchestra in a sort of symphonic union, a large-scale and serious continuation of the variation form of Haydn and Beethoven: for example, the last...
...decision to reopen the library was taken immediately after the close of the examination period is a perfect example of the way in which the red tape of Harvard officialdom can hold up reforms when they are most needed. But the student will be inclined to forgive the needless delay, confident that the University will not again allow a policy of indiscriminate economy to interfere with the availability of the library...