Word: blase
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Boston newspapers. This year the term is unusually applicable to the Freshman class. In most of the competitions for managerships in previous years there have always been large numbers of Freshmen, but this year they are noticeable by their absence. This disagreeable truth makes us fear that these blase youths do not realize the importance of such positions...
...best piece of work in the issue is "Cats" by I. J. Williams, Jr., '20. It is ingeniously put together with alternate bits of the naive and the blase, but it is real stuff. Mr. Williams is in service, and so this interesting essay whiffs of the trenches...
...tired undergraduate would see a good play let him hie himself to Ye Wilbur Theatre where the rollicking musical comedy, "Very Good Eddie," is on view. There are songs and jokes and girls enough there to please the most blase, and the cast of principals could hardly be bettered. Not since Victor Herbert's "Red Mill" has a musical show of this order contained such tuneful melodies as Jerome Kern has written, and, wonder of wonder, "Very Good Eddie" has a really truly plot...
...Gink, in preparation for the grand and stupendous festival which will be held for the Seniors in the baseball cage tomorrow night. It is with great pride that the committee announces his presence as one of the chief features in a program which should inspire even the most blase to deeds of might...