Word: workmanship
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...songs, romance struggling to be serious, and muscular chorus girls realizing that they're caricatures and making the most of it. The inevitable thrust at Yale is unusually satisfying, and some of the extraordinary political situations concocted by the authors yield flows of amusing cracks. An abundance of competent workmanship has gone into this show, "So Proudly We Hail," but it is lacking in the verve that would make it stand out in the history of Pudding theatricals...
...that Mr. Roosevelt, however humanitarian his ideals, has proved that he lacks the ability to translate his ideas into sound legislation. When Mr. Landon observed that the President has delayed social progress by insisting on the passage of readymade laws which, after trial, prove to be of inferior workmanship, his statement was accurate and supported by cogent illustrations from recent history. The NRA was the most distressing example of Mr. Roosevelt's leap-before-you-look policy, and accounted for two years of confusion and wasted time in the national economy. The Wagner Act and the Social Security Act, also...
...without presenting an invitation (issued this week only to socialites and nouveaux riches)-a barrier raised partly for swank, partly to keep out style pirates of whom couturiers have a healthy fear, in spite of the fact that to make cheaply a good copy of either the drapery or workmanship of a fine dress is often virtually impossible...
...commission, the State Insurance Department and the Illinois Bar Association. One of the strongest State insurance codes yet enacted, the bill needed only Governor Henry Horner's signature to supersede all previous insurance laws in Illinois. Swart Governor Homer called it "one of the finest pieces of constructive workmanship for the protection of policyholders in the U. S." The code has been so universally praised, in fact, that last week State Insurance Department officials could well afford the modest protest that it was "no Magna Charta...
...Shakers were the first "functionalists" for, surrounded by hybrid designs of French or German ornament, they rediscovered Early American simplicity. All this is plain to be seen, in their cup-boards and in their clothes. Everywhere their superior standard of workmanship is effectively shown...