Word: awkwardly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shrewd intellect of Shaw is at its clearest and wittiest. He divides the actual from the supposed or imagined with a two-edged sword. He creates true characters, pleasantly individualized. As in all his best plays, so in "Pygmalion" the dramatic technique is perfect. No machinery creaks, no awkward comings in or goings out mar the uproarious comedy of the five acts. One is haunted by the feeling that taken seriously, Mr. Shaw may turn out to be a serious man, and his plays truer than people think. Alfred Dolittle, as an impersonation of "undeserving poverty", which he professes with...
...entangled in it. As a private individual, one can understand President Atwood's action and sympathize with him, for no one cares to have his profession abused. But as the head of a university, one can not commend it. Such circumstances put an officer in an extremely awkward position; he hears that a man whose views he distrusts has been asked to lecture, and he objects to having those views placed before the students who are his charges. Yet if he forbids the lecture before it takes place he is criticized for hampering free speech, and if he stops...
...difficult to see why Patricia O'Hearn was chosen as leading lady, for her acting as the awkward country girl, coupled with her elastic mouth seem to fit her instead for the role of comedienne. Her obvious substitute is Florence Hedges, who, in spite of a most vivacious and attractive presence, is relegated to a minor role. Gertrude O'Connor, who takes the part of Ruby Airedale, effectively fulfills her description as "a well-kept grave"; Skeet Gallagher is easily the best actor in the play and handles a majority of the laugh-provoking lines. For the rest, none deserve...
...triangular meet with Dartmouth and Cornell, and in the Freshman meet with Andover. The couple of yards difference which would have been made by accurate passing of the baton would have been enough to affect the result of the race. In the Andover meet the passing was so awkward that the Freshmen, although they won, nearly fell over each other...
...managers, who have recently received them in a depleted condition from the government. "Public ownership and development of all natural recources" smacks too much of paternalism to appeal to the average American mind. Attempt to retain the present excess profits, estate, and income taxes, augurs an intensification of these awkward and meddlesome methods of taxation. In order to attract the farmer into this scheme, the program prescribes for him a more flexible and accessible credit system. The proposals for legislative control of the meat packing industry, and for the defeat of compulsory military training serve as bait to a large...