Word: taming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Orchestra by Russian Joseph Schillinger; Overture to a Don Quixote by Jean Rivier, 33-year-old Parisian; and New Year's Eve in New York by Werner Janssen, 30, Manhattan jazz pianist and composer. Critics paid scant attention to the first half of the program. The Chabrier was tame, the d'Indy lovely but pallid. The Clevelanders played well, but the last half agitated some critical pens...
...Dramatic Club's performance is tame, it is certainly the faultiness of the play, not of the production. Mr. Goodnow, who knows his theatre, has done all that is humanly possible to fill up the cracks in Milue's poor construction with good directorial coment. The result is a good production of a faulty, but not uninteresting play Act I is dull writing: in Act II Milne strains our imagination and the physical possibilities of the stage in the arrangement of the dream scene. Act III is almost worthy of Milne as we have come to know his fine abilities...
Science. The science articles are so written as to be of value to layman and scientist alike. William Beebe, for instance, reveals that the wild animals on the Galapagos Islands are tame. L. H. Dudley Buxton, Anthropological reader at Oxford, recalls that Jenghiz Khan was born "with a piece of clotted blood in his hand...
Reported Engaged. Ruth Elder, trans-Atlantic flyer; to Hoot Gibson, cinemactor. A few days before the rumor Lyle E. Womack, divorced Elderman, now manager of a silver fox farm, philosophized, "It's a darn sight easier to tame foxes than it is to tame a woman...
...Roosevelt's speech was tame until he quoted Commissioner Wickersham...