Word: insistence
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Yard, where they may visit once a year, or even less frequently, but which is the scene of our daily tasks. In recent years the authorities of the University have shown increasing interest in discovering undergraduate thought on important University policies. And still the alumni editors of the Bulletin insist that our opinion should not be taken too seriously...
...Cooperative at dusk, trim in their little middies and albeit laughing gaily and swinging their green bags over their shouldrs in wanton manner. But the Post's Fashion Editor or Editress or what you have says that "Radcliffe girls have no incentive to dress smartly, since Harvard men insist on being the most slovenly and 'un-pressed' college men in the country." This bit of libel received intelligent and succinct comment from two of the Radcliffe seniors who, after perusing the vile sheet, were heard to have the following dialogue...
...compromise between thrills and humanity. Utilizing discarded automobile tires a rubber coat has been devised for the bull ring horse, thick straw pads hung along the sides. It is hoped that bulls will not object to the innovation; will be satisfied with burying their horns in straw; will not insist upon horseflesh or nothing...
...opera commissioned by Gatti-Casazza, The King's Henchman. A half-hour before the tall yellow curtains parted, the standees were under full pressure. Many of these people were skeptical. They said: "Gatti is a shrewd impresario. He will tickle U. S. vanity by presenting native opera, if they insist upon it. This is the twelfth such production. None of its predecessors amounted to much." Before long they changed their minds...
Therefore, the Calles womenfolk were in a delicate position, last week, on the eve of Senorita Natalia's wedding to Senor Carlos Herrera, a minor government official. Would big, burly Papa Calles insist that his daughter should have only a civil marriage, demand that she live out of wedlock in the eyes of Roman Catholics...