Word: badness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...vague and ill-humored gesture of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin helps to deepen this misunderstanding. If the present number be read with a tolerant attitude and in the spirit in which the editors have intended it should be read, there is little cause for accusing the Lampoon of either bad manners or insincerity...
...Bad management...
...names and figures before his next radio audience. As the third day wore on, as he slopped down street after street and peered into hovel after hovel, the Prince's face hardened, greyed. "This is ghastly 1" he ejaculated frequently to Sir Godfrey. "I never thought things were so bad. A ghastly mess...
...last analysis, Mr. Roberts himself frees the Harvard man from paying any serious attention to his lurid pronunciamento, in which a few good points are so mingled with the numerous bad ones as to show the author was not in a position to distinguish between them. He points out that Harvard men are immune from the literature and motion pictures which take the American undergraduate for their subject. It is all for the best even though the medium is the genial and appreciative Mr. Roberts...
...brief presentation at the Cam bridge Festival Theatre in England. Many a worse play has been produced, but this is not another Street Scene, save in method. It is a cameractual dissertation on life in the metropolis. Sophie Smith (Jane Hamilton) doesn't mean to be bad, but she permits herself to be seduced by an artist. When she finds she is in his way, she leaves him, committing suicide by jumping in front of a subway train. It is only an honest play, not a good...