Word: rider
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...irritate the Administration, they decided to go even farther. Last week they subjected the bill to every sort of treatment of which they are capable: that is, all except honest consideration of its merits. But for the objections of a single Congressman, an attempt to attach a completely irrelevant rider for-bidding the $25,000 ceiling on incomes would have been successful...
...Events in Washington indicate House will accept Senator O'Daniel's rider to the 18-19 old draft bill. This rider would prohibit the sending abroad of soldiers under 20 without a year's training. . . . Will you join thirty Eastern colleges in sending telegrams and petitions to Chairman May, and to the Congressmen from your state, asserting that American youth is willing to serve the Army unconditionally and does not want to be tied to Congress' apron strings? We earnestly feel that action by you with in the next 36 hours will be a direct contribution to victory...
...letting an absurd Southern private spout Byron, Keats, Arnold, T. S. Eliot. But Anderson is sometimes wordy even in prose. Now and then he overworks his pathos. He throws in a jarring dream sequence. "His taste sometimes falters. Fortunately his theme, like a horse more astute than its rider, saves him from ever getting too far off the road...
...played one of his last vaudeville stands for the duration; within the fortnight he will be gobbled up by the Army. But fans, though tearstained, were fickle. Already they had picked a new favorite: the six-foot-one, wavy-haired son of a circus bandleader and circus bareback rider, Trumpeter Harry James. Already the "modern Gabriel" and his band had pied-piped away the followers of many hotter orchestras. When he blew his sweet, shrill horn, his fans were sent out of this world; and this was fast sending James into the land of plenty...
George Houston is a onetime teacher in Rochester's Eastman School of Music who is currently starred as a horse-opera hero in Pathé's serial The Lone Rider. ("Those horses bounce the bejesus out of me-I hate 'em.") But Houston has learned things in Hollywood. He takes grand operas in hand, revamps the stories, alters characters, rewords arias-and of course translates them into English. Rossini's The Barber of Seville, now in rehearsal, he telescoped from a three-and-a-half to a two-and-a-half-hour opera (including intermissions...