Word: rigidly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...knows that she must have strong, sensitive feet; that her body balance must be so perfected that she can stand, move, change direction or position at any time with poise and ease; that her readiness for movement must mean control and decision rather than nervous anticipation. Sagging abdominal muscles, rigid or weak backs have no place in a dancer's body...
...photographer pushed his camera to the ambulance window for a last snapshot. Henry Morgan's face paled with fury, his hands clenched, but he made no move. A Morgan estate guard hit the photographerin the jaw. The ambulance sped away to the rigid privacy of the Morgan estate...
...Harkness office last week secretaries shooed away newshawks with their employer's rigid formula: Edward S. Harkness does not talk to the Press. But Lawrenceville's enthusiastic young Headmaster Allan Vanderhoeft Heely, who came from Andover two years ago to succeed the late Mather Almon ("The Bott") Abbott, told a story calculated to excite the envy of any U. S. educator. Benefactor Harkness had given $7,000,000 to Exeter for a Conference Plan, besides budgetary lifts to Andover, Hill, Choate. He had not thought of Lawrenceville until Headmaster Heely, after plotting unsuccessfully to get an introduction, seized...
Written by the late Elsie Schauffier, "Parnell" dramatizes the romantic affair between the famed leader of the Irish Party and the beautiful Katherine O'Shea. Irresistibly attracted at first sight the lovers are impelled to consummate their feelings in the only manner possible under the rigid British divorce laws. They take up common residence with the tacit consent of Kate's husband, the fatuous dandy, Captain William O'Shea. Aspiring to political position which he can gain only through Parnell's favor, O'Shea makes himself so universally disliked that a breach arises in the Irish Party...
...critical day in a run-down Viennese apartment house. Prying into the personal affairs of the tenants, Author Philips clucks sympathetically over their misfortunes, smiles tenderly over their blessings. The reader may be discouraged by the lumbering archness of the style, perhaps the fault of a too rigid translation from the Dutch...