Word: contrasts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Strubing, Trimble and Keyes are the only men who were on the nine that played the University here last spring. The others are men who have come up from the Freshman squad. The infield, in contrast to Coach Slattery's "rabbit infield," is made up of men of the football build...
...musical comedies had its origin on the diminutive stage of the Princess Theatre in New York, and the play thus characterized should have a small, well-trained chorus, catchy tunes, and the principals must take the audience "into their confidence." "Oui Madame" fulfills these conditions and offers a pleasant contrast to the showy, elaborate plays which hold sway on the more spacious stages. The chorus consists of but six girls, augmented on occasions by other members of the company, but these six make up in dancing ability and good looks for what "isn't there" in pony ballets and three...
...contrast presents itself strikingly when a report arrives from Ottawa that Canada hopes to persuade the State Department at Washington to receive an official Canadian Ambassador, that diplomatic negotiations shall be maintained directly with the Canadian government rather than through the medium of Sir Auckland Geddes, and that Great Britain has not offered any opposition to this ambition of her colony, but has rather approved...
...among us who have disapproved of the way in which deportations have been carried on; but in most cases, our reasons were quite opposed to those of the congressman. So many eminent persons have protested against the injustice done by the Government agents that it is quite a pleasant contrast to hear them accused of being over-lenient...
...brilliant coloring of the setting for the second act, the scene of which is laid in Petunia, Arabia, forms a decided contrast to the first. Here the artists have been careful to produce nothing which is not true in every detail, and have well caught the atmosphere of the orient...