Word: coquettish
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...than the run of college football tales. Mr. Moore's "A Pack of Cards" lumbers heavily over a comedy situation, with inadequate characterization and conventional dialogue. "Me and Her" goes to the other extreme, being rather cleverly written about little or nothing. The reader, however, becomes weary of the coquettish parentheses addressed to him. "The Spectators" is weak description wherein exaggeration does duty as humor...
Both the women's parts were unusually well done. A. B. Kuttner '08 as Dorothea, an amorous and coquettish lady of 35 or 40 years, makes an individual and rather pleasing person out of this stock figure, and with Bastelmeier makes a distinct hit in one of the most difficult scenes of the play. As Franziska, Dorothea's neice, T. W. Knauth 07 makes a charming ingenue, and is more than ordinarily successful in creating an illusion of womanliness...
...part of Juana, the coquettish and mischievous flower-girl; whose double-dealings bring about the humorous situation on which the whole play depends, was acted with ease and distinction by J. M. Murdoch, Jr., '06. His graceful movements showed to good effect in a clever pirouet dance which was repeatedly encored...