Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...show "the obligations our language owes to various authors for numerous phrases and familiar quotations which have become 'household words.' " In 1937, when Editors Christopher Morley and Louella D. Everett put Bartlett's eleventh edition together, they went far beyond the founder's original scheme. They tried "to seize also some of the Mindhold Words . . . which the world hardly yet knows it has absorbed." Consequently, a large proportion of their "Familiar Quotations" were totally unfamiliar to most people, but their Bartlett was not only a useful reference book but a first-rate bit of reading...
...program of the class committee is left "directly to the committee." The report adds that "each committee will adopt a scheme best suited to its needs and not necessarily patterned after its predecessor." However, each class committee is required to held one social affairs yearly, restricted to class members and their guests...
Sarah Lawrence, to bring one more girl's school into this, has announced an interesting scheme for raising its overall fees. Only two-thirds of the students will have to pay the higher fees, which will cover not only the college's increased expenses, but will increase the scholarship fund for the other one-third...
...present it is a very risky business gamble to produce any show, the cost of production demanding that successful plays possess either a well-known star or a script that doesn't deviate from one of the recognized "sure-fire" formulas. Theater art rarely can figure in the Broadway scheme. If production costs continue to mount, so will ticket prices, and there's no surer way to shut off the theater from the masses than through their pocketbooks...
...line with the motif of the play--"Congreve, modern style"--the couples are forming the 18th century gavotte pattern which immediately turns into a hash-up of the Charleston, shag genre. The music for the gavotte ties in with the musical scheme of the play, changing from the traditional patterns to 20th century harmonies and dissonance...