Word: plights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...revues to have a comedian wittily announce the scenes in advance. If he predicts that they will be stupid, the audience may laugh. But if they are stupid, the audience not only will not laugh, but will think ugly things about the comedian. Such is Impresario Will Morrissey's plight in Keep It Clean. He suggests merrily that he will be unable to pay his cast and creditors. When his 'buffoons and minstrels have taken their dull turns, the audience is inclined to agree with him. Apart from a spry group of Russel Markert dancers and a burlesque called...
Moral encouragement if not tangible aid to the plight of 35,000 unemployed U. S. orchestra musicians (TIME, May 20), was contained in a remark made publicly last week in Paris by Director Serge Koussevitzky of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Said he: "A phenomenal musical renaissance is in progress in the U. S. Americans have the active temperament which, instead of retarding their artistic perceptions, has been the salvation of America's artistic development. They have stimulated orchestral advancement, just as they have created immense business enterprises. The American people have an inordinate genius for growth...
Curb officials were unmoved by Mr. Dyer's plight. They thought they smelled some kind of Prohibition plot. Mostly they marveled that one so wise as the Number Two Man of the nation's great House Judiciary Committee, and a Man from Missouri at that, should have speculated ignorantly upon the Curb, and gotten pinked...
...Plight of the College Lit" is made the subject of speculation in an article in the current number of "The New Student." In the opinion of the author, who edits the undergraduate literary magazine of the University of Wisconsin, the dilemma at hand is largely, to be attributed to the shifting of interest in extra-curricular activities during the past generation, which has resulted in a decline in calibre of the candidates competing for staff positions on college literary periodicals. The increasing encroachments by campus newspapers and humorous publications on strictly literary fields have also played their part in creating...
Presently the dead Queen was laid out in the Chapel Royal, garbed in the simple robes of a nun. Thus it was recalled that Maria Christina was in her youth a member of an Austrian order, and used to plight her vows twelve months at a time to Jesus the Christ. She had intended to become permanently the Savior's bride, but in the nick of time King Alfonso XII of Spain arrived to seek a spouse at the court of her father's cousin, Emperor Franz Josef, and the young Prinzessin's destiny was altered...