Word: promptings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...play will prompt in lowbrows the gnawing of baffled discontent. They will want to know what it is all about. The so-called intellegenzia will find in it flashes of finesse and faithful beauty. The rest is rain and thunder of a very cloudy evening...
...long as we could be satisfied with a prompt report of the score by innings, a reasonable attention to business was still possible. But when the entire population reached the point of requiring the game to be described play by play, I began to doubt whether the highest efficiency was being promoted. I contemplated action of a vigorously disciplinary character, but the outcome makes it impossible...
...Cambridge, Mass., townfolk watched the doors of a vine-clad chapel open, heard the strains of a Bach fugue issuing forth behind the students of Harvard University as they departed from the opening service of Harvard's 289th year. Prompt to start publication, the Crimson launched an early editorial at Harvard authorities for their "polished neglect" of Prof. George Pierce Baker, long the director of the 47 Wordshop (dramatics). The Workshop will be closed this year, its quarters having been reconverted for dormitory use. For Prof. Baker this means a sabbatical...
Chamber of Deputies; so did the Cabinet, which was prompt to resign. A new Cabinet was formed, non-political in nature, pledged to institute the reforms mentioned in the petition. General Luis Altamarino headed the Cabinet taking the portfolio of Minister of the Interior. Other ministers: Minister of Foreign Affairs: Emiliano Figueroa, onetime Ambassador to Argentina. Justice and Instruction: Gregorio Amunategui, Rector of the University of Chile. War: General Bennett. Public Works: Angel Guarello, onetime Minister of Justice and at present the most prominent Democrat in the country. Thus did the Army officers accomplish by the pen what is usually...
Miss Cahill was prompt to grant an interview to a representative of the Universal (News) Service, which was printed by the U. S. gumchewers' press. In this interview she said...