Word: rigidities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...kept her Prohibition views strictly to herself. Soon after her appointment she was asked, of course, if she was related to the late great Reformer Anthony Comstock. She replied: "There is no traceable connection." Her legal credo is this: "I believe in as few rules as possible and a rigid enforcement of the rules that do exist...
Officers of the Household Cavalry flushed behind their monocles a fortnight ago, when it was learned that a horse bearing one of the immobile mounted sentries of Whitehall had fallen asleep at its post and collapsed under its rigid, ornately accoutred rider (TIME...
...feel that the Dramatic Club has by any means departed from its traditional policy, which has never been notably rigid: on the contrary, the club in many respects has come nearer to its former policy than has been the case for several productions. The CRIMSON has already lauded the return to complete amateurism which "Close-Up" will introduce. After a lapse of several years, the club has again chosen the work of an undergraduate author. The objection of the critics must, therefore, be that the Spring production is to be a musical comedy...
...much loved as delighted in children, and so the long terraces of the Tuilleries gardens were reserved pour les enfants des soldats de La Grande Armee. Alongside the children on other terraces were les blesses, crippled, blinded perhaps, but every man in shining uniform, rigid and silent as they gave the Last Salute, many with streaming eyes...
...Italian governmental machinery, is often decried as syndicalism. Whether this can be maintained when the corporations are made into creatures of the central political authorities (since they depend upon these authorities for recognition) is doubtful to me. It might with more justification be maintained that they bring about a rigid bureaucratization of the social strata, which elsewhere are left more or less to their own council and initiative. To some extent this tendency to governmentalize the 'interest groups' is to be found in all modern states. But what the Italian experiment of forcing this development for purposes of general representation...