Word: totted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...least one other thing besides the British Empire the sun never sets: the operas of Gilbert & Sullivan. In Great Britain, Ireland, Australia, Canada, the U. S., they are many a tot's first taste of theatre, many an oldster's last object of devotion. They draw dramaphobes out of retirement, lure suburbanites to the city. They foster cultists as rabid as Wagnerians-cultists who, unlike Wagnerians, squeal, snort, gurgle, hum and nudge their neighbors...
...business leaders as a group tot up these mixed figures was last week ascertained by Chairman George A. Sloan of the Consumers' Goods Industries Committee, who compiled a survey of opinion. He announced: "Reports . . . point to some definite improvements in demand and production and more especially in morale. . . . By and large these reports present evidence of hope and expectation rather than any material realization...
Peter Paul Loyanich, 10, was brought up to pianism by a San Franciscan who scraped a living as violinist for Hearst's radio station KYA, saw talent in his tot at two. Peter Paul learned to play on an old oaken pianola, has been huddled under the tutorial wing of Virtuoso José Iturbi, who has said of him: "He is extraordinary -Santa Maria...
...setting the date for these tests in April, the committee has done a good turn to all concerned. For the College can select its candidates, at least tentatively, in June, thereby adding tot he lustre of the already bright national awards. And those who fail will not have to sit around until August building castles in the air. Thus the new tests can be taken as another step forward in the educational march, and one which reflects particular credit on Harvard...
...autumn of 1886 that the Corporation voted to abolish compulsory Sunday and daily services and committed itself tot he present system," the Dean remarks. "It says much, both for the validity of the system and the religious life of the University, that fifty years after the event we are able to give so decent an account. We should remember what was said when the voluntary system was begun,--an early morning service gathering twenty men, all young and present of their own choice, would be the most significant congregation in Protestantism...