Word: words
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Resolute, he was as good as his word, completed all but the last few weeks of the season without conducting a note of "musical propaganda." Then rumors reached him that Fascist myrmidons were preparing to garner his scalp. Prudent, he withdrew from the theatre, alleging "poor health." Despatches reported last week that he had never seemed more robust...
...Princesss Theatre Company of Madrid. One of the major entertainment aggregations of Spanish and Brazilian evenings burst into the huge Manhattan Opera House for a week of repertory. They are Maria Guerrero and Fernando Diaz de Mendoza with various assistants. The word "burst" is used advisedly. The Spaniards played with more explosive energy than any troupe of melodramatists that one may see in this inhibited country off the one-night stands. This, apparently, is what the Spanish crave, Raquel Meller to the contrary. Maria Guerrero had the most to do. She fulminated and she growled, stamped and tore the plays...
...education in others, never ceased to marvel at Mr. Wilson's command of language, including slang. He even asked Mr. Wilson once how he came by his facile diction, and the then president of Princeton is said to have explained: "From my father. He had a reverence for words, and he would never allow us to misuse a word. Not only would he point out the misuse, but he would explain its misuse and stress the correct use of the word. And he was always interesting. I do not know a man who could be so absorbingly interesting...
...closely are their secrets kept that even the janitors of their sanctuaries must be made members and sworn to silence. So jealously are their very names preserved that the members, even as middle-aged and greying men, will affect deafness or stony inattention when an outsider utters a word or question relevant to the subject. If the reference or question is pressed, the initiate displays either irritation or chilling dignity and often moves away, leaving spectators either amused or awed that any rites and mysteries can so bind civilized...
Cleverest of sales arguments is a convincing proof of some point that needs no proof at all. The fuddled buyer, agreeing with the salesman before the latter has uttered a word, follows the ensuing exposition with delight, and his support of an opinion is quickly turned to enthusiasm for a commodity. No modern corporation has used this sales method with more humorous ingenuity than Colgate & Co., soap makers. Up and down the land, in all the better magazines, Colgate & Co. has suggested that shaving is sensible and whiskers are silly. Last week, for its support of this curious view, Colgate...