Word: insistence
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Prominent architects and artists are constantly asked to devote their services to public enterprises like the Chicagio Fair. Generous, many of them invariably do so. Their time is usually sacrificed, they receive no payment. In addition, their schemes are often censored by stodgy directors who insist on conventionalities. But Mr. Geddes and the Chicago Fair architects find their task happy, for between them and the men who hold the moneybags is Dr. Allen Diehl Albert of Evanston, Ill., old family friend, collaborator and spokesman of Rufus Cutler Dawes,* the Fair's president. Long a journalist (Washington Times, Columbus News...
...music is to be a feature of theatrical production the patronizing public has a right to insist that the human interpreter shall be present to exercise his traditional and time honored function. . . . The pro posed mechanization is a backward step in the amusement, entertainment and educational world. It means the destruction of the inspirational glamor which has long surrounded the theatre orchestra...
...accepted without loud complaint had the House tariff-makers ceased their activities with Schedule VII (Agricultural Products). But tariff-making is the oldest U. S. political game next to taxation. Every U. S. producer claims special consideration, paints a terrifying picture of his ruin by cheap foreign competition. Under insist ent pressure, the Ways & Means Com mittee as usual broke, gave ground, widened tariff revision to include many a nonagricultural product. It was these other increases which chiefly distressed the farmer...
...laws" which the Church is not able to accept, and on which the State continues to insist, chiefly require that members of any clergy before officiating must present themselves at a registry office and subscribe their names and addresses. The Protestant clergy complied with these laws from the first, are officiating unmolested. The Catholics, deeming any obeisance to the existing civil power, however slight, incompatible with conscience, continue to regard themselves as persecuted...
...telephone Spence inamoratas find they may not speak to them. The pupils who take their exercise on Fifth Avenue or through Central Park are chaperoned with utmost vigilance. Whether teaching Shakespeare or speaking to her Chinese butler, Thomas, or playing with her two Pekinese, Miss Spence always used to insist upon "tone." Her purpose was "to develop a perfect gentlewoman, intellectually firm, and having, poise, simplicity and graciousness." The new trustees, and the revitalized alumnae were fully prepared to ensure that the new Spence should not fall short...