Word: deceitfulness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...finally, entertaining "specimens" of the "younger set" of society in Boston and of the University in Cambridge. The comedy is brightest, most observant, and most entertaining in the act that assembles playfully and good-naturedly what may be called its Boston collection. A thread or two of intrigue and deceit holds together its picturing of character and manners; the stages of Mrs. Smith's progress give it its movement; and seldom does Miss Stanwood lose her light hand. Such a satirical comedy of social "actualities," it is safe to say, no dramatic club in an American college has dared...