Word: 90s
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Importance of Being Earnest. Oscar Wilde is probably the least played of all the important dramatists* of the '90s. It is believed by shrewd financiers of the theatre that epigrams will not keep. These men are right, as usual, from a financial viewpoint. It is doubtful whether the engaging and lancelike humors of this piece will interest a great many people for a protracted period. On the other hand, the production seems one of the very few this season that the true lover of the theatre cannot afford to miss...
...Beach, novelist: "I accepted the Honorary Chairmanship of the Alumni Committee on Athletics of my alma mater, Rollins College, at Winter Park, Fla. Rollins alumni of the early '90s remember me as an outstanding Rollins athlete, as Captain of the Rollins baseball team in 1896, my senior year...
...Harvard today is more like the Yale of the '90s than herself in that decade...
...these days of faddist collectors, it is common to find catalogues listing the current selling-prices of famous signatures. An actress of the '90s brings 35 cents, a recent baseball player perhaps a dollar. No doubt the philosopher would not rank with these today, but the twelve letters of his name will be more lucrative in time to come. Already that name means something beyond valuation, to Harvard men in particular and the books themselves, with his marginal remarks, contain wisdom and sentiment as well...
...during this time too, the middle '90s, that Mr. Haines coached Guy Nickalls, now Head Coach of the Yale University crew, and prepared him for the "Diamond Sculls" and "Goblets...