Word: cuts
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...stage presentation, then "Sappho and Phaon." as has been proved in New York, fails, but so also must the dramas of Browning and Tennyson and Swinburne be called failures. The reasons are obvious: it is too long-I think that the version given by Miss Kalisch was liberally cut down; it is too far removed from actuality; it has too little action: it is too poetical. Even the exaggerated popularity of Sothern and Marlowe could hardly have supported this play and that was all that made "Joan of Are" successful on the stage. Indeed, what was not enough to draw...
...wicked and to "eat exceedingly." Overdo, a justice of the peace, appropriately disguised as a fool, comes to the fair on the scent for "enormities" which he immediately begins to discover and try to correct; but he ends by getting himself well beaten on the suspicion of having cut Cokes's purse...
...fair, Busy warns the Littlewits to beware of the "heathen," and all enter Ursula's booth to partake of pig. Justice Overdo enters, still preserving his incognito, and the extravagant Cokes begins to buy up all the toys and ginger-bread at the fair. He has his purse cut by Edgworth while Nightingale creates a diversion by ballad singing, and Justice Overdo, suspected of the theft, is given into custody. The Puritanical Busy then tries to seize Leatherhead's toys on the ground that they are "idols" which must be "torn down," and is arrested for his pains...
Last year the Joint Committee for the Investigation of Athletic Sports recommended to the Athletic Committee that the debt on the Stadium should be paid off as rapidly as possible, and when paid, that gate receipts should be cut down sufficiently to leave just enough surplus to improve gradually the grounds and buildings. The Committee was there fore confronted by a recommendation that made virtually impossible any great widening of the athletic scope for some years to come...
...were cut from the squad yesterday afternoon, and may begin practice with the second team Monday. All Freshmen who were battery candidates on the University squad and whose names do not appear in the list below, will report with the Freshman squad hereafter at 4 o'clock...