Word: angular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have emphasized over the vulgar view of their work as strange gymnastics. Wigman beginners are instructed not to think, to become mental vacuums so that they may feel some rhythmic, primitive urge and move accordingly. The urge may or may not be pretty. Dancer Wigman can make it grimly angular and austere. She is close to 50, but she can fill the stage with stark, driving energy. In her dark moods, emphasized by monotonous offstage drumbeats, she is more impressive than when she feels mellow and pastoral...
...representative from the Sutton Division is probably the best known British M.P. not of Cabinet rank: angular Lady Nancy Astor, newly returned from consorting with Communists in Soviet Russia...
...years ago long, angular Headmaster John Wayne (''Big Dick") Richards of Lake Forest (Ill.) Academy had an idea. Throwing his leg over the arm of his chair and scratching the back of his head, he reasoned that secondary education should be more vital, more effective. Last year his idea became a plan (TIME, Aug. 18). Lake Forest's recitation periods were extended to 90 min., 45 min. being devoted to discussion and preparation of the next day's lesson. Staggered and rotating, the school schedule was revised to permit all subjects to share equally the advantageous...
...Alabama Polytechnic Institute, whose long skinny legs are well suited to the high hurdles; Leo Lermond, New York Athletic Club miler, who got off to practice on the way to Lincoln every time the train stopped; Wilson Charles, Oneida Indian decathlon champion, whose foremost rival was large and angular Jess Mortensen, onetime Southern California javelin-throwing champion; George Spitz, N. Y. U. freshman who high-jumped well over six feet when he was a school boy and now holds the world's unofficial indoor record; Barney Berlinger, Pennsylvania's all-around man; Herman Brix, blond Los Angeles giant...
...Rapidan camp President Hoover last week took his tall, angular friend Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, Secretary of the Interior, and eight Wilbur assistants. Their purpose: to devise Interior economies to help reduce the prospective billion-dollar budget. When the executives came down the mountainside (their cars in low gear because of mud), a plan had been worked out whereby $4,000,000 would be snipped out of Interior expenditures this year, $6,000,000 next year, $8,000,000 the year after. Added to the War Department pruning planned the previous week-end (see p. 19), the Interior cut will...