Word: gamut
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that the broadcasting companies have clamped down on one party or another during the last few weeks is not borne out by the facts. The tuning dial has run the gamut of colors from the purple and gold of economic royalty to the bright red of communism. Censorship is not the issue, for time on the air has been sold to all comers...
...current petitions desire a return to the former rules. Here it might be added, "whatever they were." This is no solution since the old plan presented many difficulties which the Masters were right in attacking. They lacked uniformity not only in makeup but also in enforcement. Observance ran the gamut from the monastic confinement of Leverett to the country club tolerance of Eliot. While the word "chaperon" stood on the statute books, when the "Aunt from Dubuque" appeared at Harvard parties, it was more through spite than invitation. Still the law stood, and many students felt guilt at the habitual...
After Calloway's band has crashed out the final tremendous chord of the picture, the curtains part and there on the stage is Ray Noble ready to carry on the good work. Mr. Noble brings all his syncopated talents to the Met's stage, and runs the gamut from his own interpretation of "The Blue Danube", to a medley of the swing category, aided by Al Bowell, advertised as "England's Prince of Song." Maybe it was because we had heard Calloway's organization first, but Noble didn't seem to live up to his advance notices. At any rate...
Fine Arts 1d, running the gamut of art from, medieval to modern in the record breaking time of four months, has little chance to wander from the job cataloguing masterpieces. No attempt is made to explain the technique of criticism. In grasping the meaning of a kaleidoscopic mas of material the student is left entirely to his own devices. A totally didactic survey, the course can hardly hope to supply an ideal basis for enjoying...
...remember not so much the Poor Butterfly story as the blossomy scenes it hovers over: the floating teahouse in the bay; the teacher, the day after the earthquake, holding her class in decorum in the field next to the ruined schoolhouse; the geisha delighting her audience by the entire gamut of tears; the hotel-keeper's children playing gravely with falling petals; the play, lasting from noon until midnight, in which the actors pantomimed and the voices came from the wings; the student serenely explaining that kissing was "not very high-class love...