Word: irregularities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...berths to Paris, Berlin, Prague, Milan?almost anywhere away from Austria. Normally U. S. tourists keep to their spartan schedule of cathedrals, art galleries, shops, with complete disregard of local politics. But since three bloody riots have been staged in the past fortnight by Austria's two pugnacious, irregular armies?the socialist Schutzbund and the reactionary Heim-wehr (TIME, Aug. 19)?and moreover since a third riot resulted in 48 woundings and three deaths, even the most earnest gallery-gazers felt it wise to leave Vienna...
...active interest in modern printing, of which the Charles Eliot Norton library contained a number of important examples. To these, specimens of the productions of such noteworthy presses as the Merrymount, Kelmscott, Ashendene, Daniel, and Dun Emer, have been added as funds permitted. Such accessions came at irregular intervals, however, and it was not until Professor Sachs gave his collection of the work of Bruce Rogers, that Typography was recognized as a distinct subject for which the library ought to provide a place. Mr. Hofer's gift now makes it certain that the Harvard collection of finely printed books will...
...announces the passing nour without causing panic. If he thrusts himself too much in the public eye, he distracts the attention of those occupied with more serious affairs; if he retires too completely behind a pillar he tails to gather the information necessary for his theoretical report on "Some irregular methods of tilling blue books." It has been will said that the successful proctor approaches more nearly to the Golden Mean than any other College official...
...newspapers. His public is composed, he slogans, of 20 million people?"People Who Think." Whenever he is moved to expound his personal views in public, all he needs to do is notify his nearest editor and the land will soon be flooded with pungent paragraphs over the cramped, irregular, sharp-slanting Hearst signature...
...Svat takes out couple who are warming bed. Drushka puts stall as screen before bed. Bride and groom enter bed. Erotic exaltation of all company. The shadows grow darker. The whole company is immobile as if transfixed. Father of bride sings the final magnificently eloquent phrase, interrupted at irregular intervals by bell-like crashes from the orchestra." Friend or foe, none can deny Stravinsky's fame...