TIGHTS, n. An habiliment of the stage designed to reinforce the general acclamation of the press agent with a particular publicity. Public attention was once somewhat diverted from this garment to Miss Lillian Russell's refusal to wear it, and many were the conjectures as to her motive, the guess of Miss Pauline Hall showing a high order of ingenuity and sustained reflection. It was Miss Hall's belief that nature had not endowed Miss Russell with beautiful legs. This theory was impossible of acceptance by the male understanding, but the conception of a faulty female leg was of so prodigious originality as to rank among the most brilliant feats of philosophical speculation It is strange that in all the controversy regarding Miss Russell's aversion to tights no one seems to have thought to ascribe it to what was known among the ancients as modesty. The nature of that sentiment is now imperfectly understood, and possibly incapable of exposition with the vocabulary that remains to us. The study of lost arts has, however, been recently revived and some of the arts themselves recovered. This is an epoch of renaissances, and there is ground for hope that the primitive blush may be dragged from its hiding-place amongst the tombs of antiquity and hissed on to the stage.
Quotes about feats (16 Quotes)
The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, "I was wrong".
There is a strength of quiet endurance as significant of courage as the most daring feats of prowess.
People I look to: again, Hank Aaron, man you challenged the status quo and the records of the game. Monumental feats in an era where people didn't like that.
In all feats of fire-eating it should be noted that the head is thrown well back, so that the flame may pass out of the open mouth instead of up into the roof, as it would if the head were held naturally.
It takes an amazing amount of strength and skill to manipulate the body ..., and they do all these acrobatic feats while the dragon is in motion.
One learns little more about a man from the feats of his literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary canal.
Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but, they also get more notoriety when they crash.
Eating coals of fire has always been one of the sensational feats of the Fire Kings, as it is quite generally known that charcoal burns with an extremely intense heat.
Our main objective is to get into the schools during the day to promote character building and drug awareness. We do that by getting their (students) attention with feats of strength.
The street to obscurity is paved with athletes who can perform great feats before friendly crowds.
Best Witchcraft is Geometry
To the magician's mind --
His ordinary acts are feats
To thinking of mankind.
A bore is a fellow who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.
Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.
A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.
He credited her with a number of virtues, of the existence of which her conduct and conversation had given but limited indications. But, then, lovers have a proverbial power of balancing inverted pyramids, going to sea in sieves, and successfully performing other kindred feats impossible to a faithless and unbelieving generation.