Word: cleverly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Gilbert and Sullivan were such an amazingly clever couple that most of the recent producers giving their works have spent a good deal of money on costumes and left the rest to the words and music. In reality the operas need the deft and specialized treatment demanded by any unique type of entertainment. Probably most producers, preoccupied with sex appeal and the Charleston, do not understand Gilbert and Sullivan. It has remained for Winthrop Ames to reveal them so perfectly that everyone may understand and may enjoy...
...current "Century", writing under the title, "An Unfortunate Necessity", Gerald W. Johnson discards censorship and discovers a new method of attack. The fault of the newspapers is, he says, not in telling unpleasant news but in telling it unpleasantly. If the journalists were clever enough, his intimation is, they could tell questionable stories in a humorous vein which would alleviate the usual sultry effect or with scientific discernment which would allay popular and fallacious deductions. Yet he never once asks himself or his readers why newspaper men should want to draw the sting from crude news to protect a public...
...rough-and-tumble every time. He was an expert rough-and-tumbler and left a trail of broken noses behind him by his deftness at ramming with his head. He has but one moral to point- that the suckers are just as crooked as the gamblers but not so clever. Many of his anecdotes are entertaining, all are lively, but they suffer from lack of variety...
Swatting their visitors about the head, neck and shoulders, wobbling their netted sticks in that peculiar fashion invented by the Indians but copied to perfection by clever palefaces, flirting the hard little ball hither and yon over the field and running, running, running at a pace too fleet and steady even for fit Britishers, the Swarthmore College (Swarthmore, Pa.) lacrosse players last week plunked home 11 goals to 8 plunked by an invading combination from Oxford and Cambridge. Surprise and delight were universal. Just previously, the formidable British dozen had crushed Pennsylvania...
...form of the unattractive hypocrisies of a decadent and disastrous yesterday. Yet he believes that he is as honest and progressive a citizen of Boston as is Mr. Mencken of Baltimore. And in his thinking that lies a certain grandeut of faith which too often is slighted by the clever and the essentially national