Word: ridings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will "as a token of my sincere appreciation" for the broadcasts. (One year a third of the Met's million-dollar contributions came from radio listeners.) And a cowboy wrote that he liked to strap a radio to his saddle and gallop across the mesa to The Ride of the Valkyries...
Patience is not most distinguished either musically or lyrically among the works of the great Gilbert and Sullivan. But the Harvard G and S players have been able to over-ride with enthusiasm and charming verve the inadequacies and datedness of their material. On the whole, this spoof at Victorian artsycraftsiness comes off very well...
Perhaps the most telling critique came from George K. Moriarty, telegraph editor of the Hartford Times (circ. 116,012), who wrote: "The ground plan and execution of the news story today are as out of date as sonnet writing or the sleigh ride." By long usage, wire services and most newspapers cram the major facts into the first paragraph, then return to each point later for fuller treatment. The result is repetition that taxes both "the paper's newsprint supply [at $135 a ton] and the reader's patience"; it also impairs the readability of many stories that...
...race in Alice in Wonderland; i.e., everybody won. The government-subsidized bus company, which started the trouble by upping its fare from fourpence to fivepence, would go on collecting the higher fare. The thousands of Negro bus riders, commuting from the segregated locations outside the city, would continue to ride for the old price by the simple process of paying fourpence for coupons exchangeable for a fivepenny bus ticket. The difference would be taken care of by a special fund raised by the employers and merchants of Johannesburg, who cared far less for the principles involved than...
Chief reason for the sleigh ride in Hoffman stock was clear last week. Though Marcus announced last January that., Hoffman's earnings for the first nine months of 1956 were $1.51 a share, the year's earnings turned out last week to be only 43? a share, about one-third of 1955 earnings. There also was evidence that large blocks of stock had been dumped on the market by some who had traded their companies for Hoffman stock. Originally, they had promised to hold the stock for investment purposes. But later some of them had a change...