Word: punctuality
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...children, they are punctual, straightforward, "good at memerizing, but talk about love affairs too early," ask silly questions about China, and "the way they play scares...
With lights blazing, band blaring, batons twirling, and all signposts seeming to point to Gargantua the Great, described as "the only full-grown gorilla ever seen on this continent," Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey circus arrived, as punctual as spring, for its annual opening in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden last week. Gargantua out-ballyhooed a whole battalion of new acts, out-ballyhooed Frank ("Bring 'Em Back Alive") Buck, who appeared- elephantastically in a howdah-for the first time in any circus, out-ballyhooed John & Henry Ringling North who, after payment of $823,000, last winter brought back...
...overlooked in the uproar of the somewhat over-punctual celebration of Mr. McNutt's arrival in Washington was his official mission: to tell the President that: 1) Philippine sentiment for immediate independence is declining, 2) that Major General Douglas MacArthur is "doing wonders" with the Philippine Army, and 3) that U. S. residents of the Philippines resent paying income taxes...
Journeyman'-:, gallimaufry of humors lacks bounce, its madness lacks method, its plot lacks plot. Most of the time Dye struts lungingly across the stage bellowing who he is?a helpful move for latecomers who can't read their programs in the dark, but rather trying on those who are punctual. The play slowly creeps to its big scene?a revival meeting where Rocky Comfort gets religion and writhes on the floor like so many small boys trying to get as dirty as possible rolling...
Thanks to the punctual arrival of singers and audience, the program by the Club singers was concluded soon enough so that the Harvard songs also could be put on the air, with some 400 students joining the Club on Widener steps...