Word: rigidities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Besides those undetained by actuality there is the class of persons who have a valid reason for a delayed arrival at these twilight recitals. At slight hardship to this more worthy class but for great benefit to the meticulously prompt, a more rigid system of ushering seems advisable. Under the present regulations a person is allowed admittance to the main auditorium as soon as he arrives within the outer gate, no matter what is going on inside. As a consequence, the first half hour of the recital is accompanied be the incessant rattling of an archal lock and the resulting...
...rhythm, often known as "common time", is only seldom relieved by the equally hackneyed three-four of the waltz. But from this very sameness is inculcated a habit from which the plastic age finds it hard to depart Parties become not only more frequent but more lengthy and the rigid two o'clock closing rule of three years ago has been honored during the present season by breaches of from one to three hours...
...Story. A little girl sat in the gallery at a Tetrazzini concert, her black pigtails rigid with excitement. The colossal colorature took her finale with a flourish, kissed her hands to her public, tossed back its flowers, and the little girl sat spellbound. When she arrived home (Lawrence, Mass.) finally she made a very serious announcement, that she too would become a great singer. The grocer father took no notice. There were seven other Jacobos to feed. Why should little Clara get such notions ? But she kept her dreams, left school before she was 15, worked days in a textile...
...discovered in time for use at the trial. As it appears on paper nobody could reasonably censure a reader either for refusing to credit it or for concluding that it raises grave doubts of Vanzetti's guilt. No lawyer would be willing to accept it without the most rigid cross-examination; no lawyer would be willing to ignore it. It is the kind of stuff that must pass through the fire of a forensic adversary proceeding and be evaluated by the constituted trier of fact...
...Talley trouble," meanwhile, has come to mean lack of temperament. The life she leads has been as much to blame. In it there have been vocal gymnastics, new languages for new operas, right living. There have been few books, few friends, no beaus. There have been the rigid standards bred by the First Christian Church of Kansas City, a public to be a little suspicious of, and a handful of haughty prima donna ways which have not helped her popularity...