Word: cleverer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Irish jokes and parodies, the ones worth mentioning are: the imitation headlines under "The Day"; the "Boston Society Page in Fifty Years," the most consistently clever and almost brilliant contribution; the "Life of St. Patrick," which is good only in spots; and "Abie's Irish Potato," which is saved from brutality by several original lines...
Whether or not you enjoy "Next Door", which opened Monday night at the Hollis depends entirely upon you. If you like a play that is undoubtedly clever and well written, that gets at least half of its laughs by having the charming young heroine say, "Damn;" and that is a faithful representation of domestic life in a small town by all means go and see it. If, on the other hand, you dislike seeing portrayed on the stage characters that you would shun in real life, characters that are unattractive, mediocre, cross and uninteresting, even in the heights of their...
...Clever satire is rare enough in these days to merit special recognition. In the article reprinted below, the New Student has used it to strike a sure deft blow against all that is illiberal and cheap in American college journalism. It is a fact that many college editors prostitute their intellectual standards and their literary skill to "exhorting application to study, denouncing unmoral students, people who do not cheer at basketball games, radicals and Freshmen Who Walk On The Grass." When modern education allows such inanity to flourish about its inmost shrine there is some reason for Mr. Upton Sinclair...
...match was distinguished by the clever headwork used on both sides and by the brilliant play of Lenhart in the first two games. Rawlins seemed at first upset by his opponent's style and made several erratic shots until he found a system with which Lenhart seemed unable to cope. Then he steadily recovered his confidence, and at the end completely turned the tables on Lenhart...
...Debevoise rallied, however, and won the fourth 15 to 12. The last game was contested for a long time, with Rawlins leading by a point or two throughout. At the end, Debevoise, trailing 10 to 14, rallied and won the next three points, but a clever side wall shot by Rawlins proved too much for him, and he succumbed...