Word: climax
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Haven last Saturday. Frey pitched on excellent game for the Freshmen but was given poor support by his team mates, while the Yale team played well together. Reilly at third base did fine work for the Yale freshmen; his double play, which closed the game furnished a brilliant climax...
...Poetastors", although clever, is not perfectly successful: it is a tale of the mismating of two half-baked literary souls, and the diction is rich with expressions like "she glimpsed his profile." Mr. Seldes' "The Other Crucified" is a too daring conception skillfully carried out except at the climax, where naturally it must be inadequate. "The Necklace of Death," by Mr. Skinner, is a good Indian yarn by one who knows the Indians; yet his properties get him into trouble in the middle of the narrative. The verse shows as usual craftsmanship, and occasionally makes music...
...bill opens with Mr. Abbott's "The Head of the Family," a drab little tragedy of life in a New England farm kitchen. The piece will recall to many certain of the Irish plays. It has a heart-breaking climax, admirably staged, but the action has not made it seem inevitable. No doubt this impression is strengthened by the acting, here the least successful of any of the evening. The characters speak words that attest to their horror, but their aspect conveys no sense of feeling whatever. Mr. Lyding was in manner and appearance admirable as the father...
...indeed a great tribute to the usefulness of an institution when a man who is not one of its alumni comes forward and contributes two and a half million dollars toward its support. Harvard has been watching with keen interest the steps that have led up to the final climax that makes possible the construction of the "New Technology" on this side of the Charles, and in the achievement of such unqualified success, our sister institution has our heartiest congratulations...
...elements in the English drama. The play follows the "Miles Gloriosus", of Plautus, but interprets the characters in the vein of Elizabethan comedy. The plot of the story centres about a town gallant who is made to believe that he is in love with a fascinating young widow. The climax comes with his disillusionment...