Word: pedaling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Professor Burton should occasionally give the least touch to the soft pedal and remember that English should be good even in the deep-loined West. He is quoted as saying: "The way Western young folk go after belles-lettres almost suggests that the support of literature in the future will come from those parts." It is a striking picture that the professor draws; this lust for learning this avid, eager eating up of elegance, this relentless pursuit of the humanities. With exultant whoops the Western young folks gulp minor poetry and major essays, studies, sketches, belles-lettres, no more than...
...several concerts this season it has been touch-and-go between the solo coughers and musicians; the Coughers' Chorus, with symphony accompaniment, has been heard frequently, but without any notable pleasure. And your public cougher doesn't know the use of the soft pedal--he coughs fortissimo and sostenuto. The world will be a far better place to live in if the International Anti-Coughing Union succeeds in its suggested purposes...
...audience is the flying public at large who commit themselves or their freight to the air. Unfortunately, in aviation, neither the first not the last are present in any considerable degree, in reality they are almost non-existent, and so it is not surprising that the soft pedal is down what time our orchestra is playing discordantly to itself...