Word: pacing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...opening Carmen went off with such finish and pace that most critics pronounced it superior to the winter performances in which high-priced Rosa Ponselle impersonated the irrepressible gypsy heroine. For its spring season the Metropolitan had kept on 60 of its regular orchestramen, 60 choristers, the complete ballet corps. For its Carmen it had retained Bruna Castagna, a roly-poly Italian who joined the Metropolitan regulars last winter and was no stranger to New Yorkers who had heard her in the popular-priced Hippodrome performances and in the Stadium's summer opera. The Castagna Carmen is a jolly...
Although Mayor LaGuardia had not granted it a police escort, the coach ignored traffic lights. At Fifth Avenue & 30th Street, site of the old Holland House whence Tobacconist Sorg started his run, Mrs. Dibble set a smart pace. The Valiant clattered through Manhattan traffic to South Ferry in 29 minutes, sailed across to Staten Island, changed horses, took the Tottenville Ferry to Perth Amboy...
...Many people ascribe the decline in cigar smoking to the accelerated pace of American life," meditated Administrator Kolodny in a fine blue haze. "Others declare it is partly due to the invasion of women smoking cigarets." But whatever the cause, said he, the Cigar Progress Board was out to restore the cigar's oldtime prestige. Cigar makers, who will save some $3,800,000 this year through invalidation of AAA processing taxes, will support the following CPB efforts...
FLOWERS FOR THE JUDGE-Margery Allingham - Double day, Doran ($2). Author Allingham's characters are conventional murder-story puppets but by skillful pace, dialog, detail, she makes a commonplace theme into a specious and entertaining yarn...
...call it a freight-train instead of a goods-train they are 'right'; and the first is correct English and the second a dialect." Americanisms, which have been forcing their way into English since the early 19th Century, have lately "been entering at a truly dizzy pace." Two causes: i) British cinemaddicts absorb more U. S. talkies than their own. 2) "The influence of 125,000,000 people, practically all headed in one direction, is simply too great to be resisted by any minority, however resolute." The tide turned in 1820 (Sir William Craigie's date) ; first...