Word: cleverer
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...star during his first year, disabled by an injury which threatened to become permanent during his second, and handicapped by absence from the University while serving in France, he returned this year to become one of the strong bulwarks of the line. Some men have been acclaimed as clever players; Wheeler has rather shown himself a great player, dependable, sure, giving the game all he could. He has been universally recognized as one of the greatest players of his position in the country, and promises in the next year to place himself beside those men whose fame in football...
...Arthur Hammerstein as the producer of "The Firefly" and "High Jinks" were somewhat disappointed in the production of "You're in Love" last evening. Yet it is unquestionably a good musical comedy--fully as good as the average we have had in Boston this season. The dialogue is unusually clever and witty, and then is a semblance of a plot. The most out standing feature of the production is the excellent and attractive chorus. In this Hammerstein has shown some originality and considerable skill. The staging of the play could hardly be improves upon and the scenery shows real talent...
...allowed to go outside the walls to do menial labor. But it was not a success; it was in fact a distinct failure. Two-thirds of the graduates from the prisons came back for another term, and most of the rest did not return only because they were too clever to be caught...
...Columbia Park Boys' Club has a nation-wide reputation among social service workers. It was originally one of many settlement house clubs in San Francisco, but by means of its entertainments, which are both clever and interesting, it has reached the stage where it is self-supporting. The are 45 boys, drawn from the less favored districts of San Francisco, enrolled in its membership, the majority of them being about 14 years old. The club has its own uniform which the members wear in their exhibitions so that there is no individual brilliancy but only the perfection of the whole...
...Columbia Park Boys' Club is an organization unique among boys' clubs. Starting from the humble beginning of a settlement house club, it has risen to a place of distinction among boys' clubs, and to a stage where it is entirely self-supporting through the clever entertainments which its members have perfected. The members of the club wear uniforms and each plays a particular part in its efficient organization. In previous years the club has taken transcontinental tours similar to the trip it is making this year...