Word: subjected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Crimson speakers will face their second test of the winter term at 8 o'clock tonight when they meet representatives of the Tufts College Debating Council in the Lowell House Common Room. The subject of the debate will be as follows: "Resolved, That the United States Supreme Court should be deprived of its privilege of the judicial review of federal legislation...
...this paper," said the vitriolic mayor, changing the subject and pointing at the headlines of the local evening paper, "I've cut every city employee's pay 25 per cent. They can't expect to get as much when we've got the highest tax rate since Newburyport was incorporated. It can't be helped with this Roosevelt as President," Gillis said, as he lapped into an unprintable tribute to the first executive...
Stage history can be very fascinating if it be pursued in the right spirit. Dr. Noyes has tried to communicate this fascination to the reader, but the detail is necessarily so abundant, the subject is inevitably so remote, that the common reader, at any rate, will find the book bewildering and difficult to grasp. It is, of course, a book to be digested wholly, though people who are already familiar with Jonson may dip into it from time to time and seize information on their favorite play for future consumption. It is not a book to read at one sitting...
...does not mean to suggest that Dr. Noyes has merely made the best of a bad subject, for that would be untrue. He throws no end of light upon the manners and customs of by-gone ages when the stage was an important avenue of culture, with no competitors for popular esteem such as the opera or the movies. "Theatrical reminiscence", according to Max Beerbolun, "is the most awful weapon in the armory of old age", but when a young scholar wields it one can endure...
...reputation she had deserved a Metropolitan hearing several years ago. There were those in the audience who remembered her sensational concert debut in 1923,when she appeared in Carnegie Hall as a plump, glossy-haired girl of 19, an unknown suddenly called upon to substitute for Soprano Anna Case. Subject for high praise then was the beauty of her voice, its vibrant warmth, its effortless production. Smooth singing was to be expected at her Metropolitan debut, and with the exception of a few strained top notes there was little fault to find. Surprise was to see her appear...