Word: seldom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Normally even-tempered and, though often profane, seldom bitter, Harry Hop kins becomes aroused when WPA is at tacked. One of its loudest critics lately has been Representative Hamilton Fish of New York who last month said of WPA that "the whole rotten mess stinks to high heaven and, like a dead mackerel in the moonlight, it stinks and shines and shines and stinks...
...seldom meet, when out to walk, Either the Orchid or the Auk. The awkward Auk is only known To dwellers in the Auk-tic zone, While Orchids can be found in legions, Within the equatorial regions. So if by chance you travel on The Lena or the Amazon, Be certain of the temperature Or you will make mistakes I'm sure...
Biggest professional organization in the U. S. is the National Education Association, which numbers some 225,000 (four-fifths women) of the nation's 1,000,000 school teachers. But teachers, who in many communities are expected to be politically as well as physically chaste, seldom raise their voices outside the classroom. Consequently they are perennially startled at the bold talk that springs up at the N. E. A.'s annual conventions, attended chiefly by the outspoken fringe...
...youth from the country, Hollywood treads on ground sanctified by old familiar precedent. Thus sanctified is The Shopworn Angel-first told by Dana Burnet in the Saturday Evening Post for Sept. 14, 1918, later, as a picture in 1929. Faith such as Hollywood has always shown in such stories seldom goes unrewarded. As it emerges from its previous tellings, The Shopworn Angel is still a tear jerker in the grand manner-simple, senile and heroically sentimental...
This system of operatic production, known among operagoers as the ''star system," has its advantages. It simplifies and speeds up rehearsal, and allows the public to hear a great number and variety of fine singers. But it also has disadvantages. Under it, an operatic cast is seldom rehearsed as a unit. Result: Operatic acting and staging, as a rule, is slipshod, routine, uncoordinated...