Word: prick
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Talleys looked around for another teacher, chose Ottley Cranston, who with Mrs. Cranston directs the Kansas City Civic Opera Company. Marion studied the roles of Mignon and Arline in the Bohemian Girl, sang them in May, 1922 (aged 15), Kansas City pricked up its ears. Jacob A. Harzfeld and John T. Harding did more than prick up their ears. They set about overcoming the Talley difficulty, which was lack of funds, arranged a series of concerts that netted $10,000, arranged through Otto Kahn an audition with the Metropolitan Opera authorities in November, 1922. There followed months of study...
...forgive you for making important front page announcements about a waiter lighting Coolidge's cigar or on just how that distinguished gentleman eats, but when you begin to tamper with news and twist meanings it's time to prick that bubble about TIME'S "plucking that needle of fact out of a haystack of news." If your comments cannot be more intelligent I suggest you borrow a leaf from the Nation's book and give us your foreign news in the manner of that journal's "International Relations Section." (But if you did I suppose you'd never reach...
...conducted, introduced, and told to roll up his sleeve. Through a hollow needle, a doctor then connected a tube with a vein in his arm. The tube led up to a barrel-shaped cylinder about an inch high from which on the other side a similar tube stretched to prick the chilly flesh of poor Mae Wahl. The doctor turned a switch and a plunger began to work in the cylinder. On the down stroke it sucked blood out of the veins of the seller; on the up stroke it pumped this same blood into the anemic lady. A metre...
...year ago, Mr. Nash evidently felt his conscience prick him. He decided to distribute his $600,000 worth of stock among his employes. He told them: "If I took this $600,000 and personally appropriated it, I would be the archfiend of the ages. If I snatched this money that you have helped to earn away from you, my conscience would condemn me for being the greatest robber that ever walked on God's footstool...
...never meant to be analyzed or explained. Where the substance of the same author's Lady into Fox (TIME, Apr. 14, 1923) was fantasy, this is satire, deft and charming. Only, if you make the fatal mistake of trying to find out what it means, you will prick the bubble. For it means nothing at all and is a delight for just that reason...