Word: ordeal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mother used to impress upon me the value of a strict routine of life. When I was six years old I made my stage debut as a child toe dancer. This was a rather early start and meant months of hard work before. I was carefully trained for the ordeal. My stepfather and my sisters taught me to dance and I was hailed as one of those child wonders. However, I had to follow strict rules, even in the earlier travels of the Miller family, and my mother set aside certain hours for dancing studying music, taking piano lessons, physical...
...Blue gridiron machine was due to the brief period allowed for proper conditioning. It is felt that when such gruelling tests as the Dartmouth game come so early in the fall, a longer period of time should be allotted to get the players into fit condition to meet the ordeal of battle...
Katja. The ordeal whereby for the sake of a nation, royalty submits to degrading incognito, is much met in Shubert operetta. In Katja, however, there is more than enough humor and music to relieve the redundancy of thought. Having already charmed the British, it brings to this civilization "Leander", a song that needs no comment because everyone will soon know it by heart; Doris Patston, a pert lass who captivates; Jack Sheehan, comedian, who exchanges an honest laugh for every minute of the audience's attention; Lilian Davies, prima donna, and Allan Prior, tenor, who can sing...
...HUMAN ADVENTURE (2 vols.): THE CONQUEST OF CIVILIZATION-James Henry Breasted; THE ORDEAL OF CIVILIZATION - James Harvey Robinson-Harper ($10 or $5 each). Scholar-scientists on Man's history since the ooze...
...Senator's experience must indeed have been harrowing to merit the superlative, for last September he had the trying ordeal of being arrested in Baker, Ore., for drunken and disorderly conduct. Official versions charged that a) he was drunkenly throwing things around in a restaurant, b) he was being fed by two buxom friends at the time of his arrest. (TIME, Sept. 28 THE CONGRESS...