Word: almost
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...regards his contemporaries in college Williams feels that in almost every case it was possible to pick out those whose talent would bring them fame in their particular field of art. These were not necessarily those whose execution was most perfected...
Jane Cowl is, as usual, strongest in nonchalance. She appears almost to let the part drop out of her hands, so consummate is her indifference. Too much naturalness can lose a show as easily as chanted lines or oratory. But Miss Cowl keeps her playing in the low keys of naturalness and yet it has no moment of wavering...
...play becomes almost wildly funny when Hamlet and Ophelia, from a rival puppet show, visit the harlequinade. Ophelia's rue was never worn with such a glorious difference as by Marion Evensen. Hamlet, played by Richard Nicholls, dies with Pierrot's rapier through his heart and on his lips a quotation from "The Merchant of Venice...
...many of the details of University life under the House Plan, the question of the disposal of the Union is still in a distinctly fluid state. The decision of the Governing Board on the matter is as yet unmade and its effort to sound student opinion found the usual almost fifty-fifty verdict of Harvard. The discussion has been based on the assumption that future Freshman classes will be housed in the Yard, a measure evidently favored though not yet announced, and it is logical to view the subject on that basis, for the housing of the Freshmen elsewhere will...
...recent unpleasantness. It gets off to a slow start and the first act is rather tiring, though from time to time the explosion of a good gag recharges the air. Eddie, the little East Side song plugger is drafted and-runs off to Armentieres, but that basic development takes almost an hour. There is of course, his sister's boy friend whom he distrusts, who he later finds ain't done right by her, and whom he chances to meet again in a shell hole...