Word: abandon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Patience. Gusto and gay abandon are the birthright of the rollicking operettas of W. S. Gilbert & Arthur Seymour Sullivan. And while Vivian Hart as the saucy dairy maid, James Watts as the lavender Bunthorne and Joseph Macaulay as the poet Archibald, carol sweetly, they play with more diffidence than zest. A chorus even less frolicsome than the principals was likened by one reviewer to "a daisy chain of serious Smith or Bryn Mawr girls." The proceedings are applauded in genteel style by players in two stage boxes, outfitted in the costumes of 1881. For those who prefer emasculated albeit musical...
...rose and frightened strangers. True, this flood seemed to be worse than usual. Later on, perhaps, they might have to fight day and night against the waters as they had fought against them before. But the danger was still far to the north. That, without even fighting, they should abandon their homes, gather in refugee camps, become objects of charité? well, a fine man, a great man was "M'sieu Jean," but just a little bit an outsider, hardly quite able to realize how very many seasons of high water they had seen come...
...possible causes for this decline and fall of what is evidently a good operetta in other places; one is the cast which, with the exception of an energetic young lad with a flare for burlesque; a large sized edition of Lenore Ulric, who flings herself about with enjoyable abandon; and a blonde variety of Ann Pennington, who possesses all the well known Pennington attributes including the dimpled knees, is distinotly mediocre. The other reason lies in the fact that a play billed as "gorgeously mounted" ought, in all propriety, to be mounted if not gorgeously at least attractively and, making...
...slow course perhaps, but it seems no less unfortunate that the University dining hall project must again be delayed because of a lack of energy in carrying out a systematic and efficient canvass of the feeling of the undergraduates on the question. The decision of the Freshman Committee to abandon its petition after obtaining two hundred signatures means only one thing,--there will be no amelioration of the eating problem for at least another year, Five hundred names was set by President Lowell as the quota necessary to assure the University administration that a sufficient number of men were desirous...
...impossible to find enough colleges geographically proximate to play with under purely amateur conditions, I am ready to suggest that we abandon our pretense of amateurism and come out open and above board for professionalism. I would be perfectly willing to print in our catalogue just how much we pay our pitcher, our quarterback and high jumper. I never could see any moral or other distinction between a man who plays a game for fun or for money...