Word: slow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...listeners heard a rousing, but polished, reading of the First Movement, with its bold tossing about of thundrous rhythms, alternating with gentle, simple melodies, rising again and again in a seemingly endless succession of climaxes. Then came the swift, breathless scherzo (musical jest) ; then the long-drawn-out, meditative Slow Movement; finally, after fragments of what had gone before, the rich baritone voice of Mr. Royal Dadmun, chanted: "O friends, no more such sound of discord. Let us sing a strain more cheerful, now flowing, a strai-ai-ai-ai-ai-ain of gladness...
...repeated reports in the daily press that he was about to resign-"tomorrow," "within 48 hours," etc. For the first week, at least, the reports were unfounded. It was even declared positively that the President had asked for Mr. Daugherty's resignation. If so, he was slow in tendering it. After a conference with the President, the Attorney General departed on a "mysterious" trip to Chicago. He attended the final sessions of the grand jury which indicted Charles R. Forbes, former Director of the Veterans' Bureau, for fraud...
...answer to 26 motions to revoke or modify the Government fiscal reforms, Chancellor Wilhelm Marx again told the Reichstag that it would be dissolved if it interfered with the Government's power now being exercised under a constitutional amendment. Speaking in the low, slow, even tones for which he is noted, the Chancellor said the Government had saved the nation from the horrors which further depreciation of the mark would have brought. He warned the Reichstag that tampering with the Government's decrees would undo the good work and start Germany off in a mad career down...
...Alarm Clock" was this week's offering of tire Boston Stock Company. Although rather slow in getting started, the actors got into the swing of the thing by the middle of the first act; and carried it through with exceptional success...
...nobody will believe that he intentionally did anything wrong, and nobody will believe that he is an adequate Cabinet officer." Mr. Gilbert called him "the old grad type ... a guard on the University of Michigan football team when he was in college ... an honest, well-intentioned, good-natured, slow-witted man who has never grown up. . . . Mr. Denby has, I suspect, an almost irresistible impulse to give the college yell...