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Word: needless (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cadman at the piano. The music was of course played from manuscript. On each sheet, the title was written on a slip of paper pasted over some previous heading, which, after steaming off the paper slips, turned out to be Dance of Scarlet Sister Mary. Needless to say, those of us who were "in on the know" procured and devoured (somewhat secretively in a few cases I fear) copies of that book. Concert night, the program notes stated that Mr. Cadman's composition had been influenced by the writings of George W. Cable, at which statement several...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 17, 1938 | 1/17/1938 | See Source »

...theological students. In them he instills his own technique. He broadcasts with his coat off and observes "Ten Radio Commandments": 1) Speak in a conversational tone; 2) Take your sermons not from the Bible, but from life; 3) Leave out the word "I"; 4) Neglect the needless; 5) No bunk; 6) No sob stuff; 7) Make the web of your sermon optimistic, cheerful; 8) Check and recheck your script before delivering . . . for absolute factual accuracy; 9) Keep the word "not" out of your sermon script; 10) Use no introduction. Plunge right into the middle of the sermon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RELIGION: Neglect the Needless | 12/6/1937 | See Source »

...vocabulary of the children is small and poorly pronounced-because, said Dr. Blatz, the children make adequate signs to one another and are too smart to make needless sounds in addition. According to his practiced eye, "Annette is the social climber, Yvonne the mother, Cecile the unknown quantity, Emilie the happy-go-lucky, and Marie (smallest) the sympathetic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Y-A-C-E-M | 11/8/1937 | See Source »

...original four Hal Kempians, Saxie Dowell and Ben Williams are Tar Heel Delta Tau Deltas. Clayton Cash is an Illinois Delt; Ralph Hallenbeck, Princeton '35, is a Triangle Club man. Dorsey Forrest is a Northwestern Zeta Psi, Bruce Milligan is from Boston U, Phil Fent is a Cornhusker (Nebraska). Needless to say, all, including Hal, usually go bare-headed and garterless...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rhythm is His Business | 10/27/1937 | See Source »

...after, and that it was impossible to ship them earlier. Under what "false pretenses" was the money collected" Mr. Hart and Mr. Curtiss apparently base their charge that the solicitors deliberately deceived the students on the grounds that the supplies were used "to aid Moscow in Harlem." It is needless to point out that logically there is no connection between the use of the money and the intentions of the collectors three months before. Where the libelous letter dissolves into sound and fury is that the equipment was not used "to aid Moscow," but as part of a parade against...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUT, OUT, DAMNED LIE! | 10/1/1937 | See Source »

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