Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...doubled that the players fail to grasp the opportunities afforded by the script. The characterizations were on the whole indicative of able direction, diligent work, plus a manner of treatment which would not be mis-placed on the most cosmopolitan of stages. Rosemary McHugh and Harry Hutchinson convinced in difficult pats, while John F. Joyce, as Charles Lamb, breathed vital breath into his historical model...
...many forces have converging to put football in its present position. Retrenchment is difficult and hardly probable. The American tendency for hero-worship, the principle of state education, the distortion of the idea of a university among the masses, the chauvinism of alumni, the expansion of the sport pages in newspapers and the special proclivity of the press for football stories--these and other causes have distorted the value of football and made it less a game than ever before...
This eleventh century Italian work, translated by D. F. Robertson '25, will be difficult to produce over the radio, according to Edward Massey '15, the director, owing to the importance of its scenic and costume effects. The miracle play gives excellent opportunities for brilliant costumes, which will be chosen by Miss Rose Briggs, sister of former Dean Le Baron Russell Briggs '75. The central figure in the play is Herod, a boisterous ranting character typical of the medieval idea of this king. There will be no charge for admission to the presentations...
...Maria Christina were "carriers" of haemophilia, the family scourge. Last week he smashed the romance of his big-boned 23-year-old second son, the Infante Jaime. Prince Jaime is no haemophile, but until a few years ago he was a deaf mute. Even now it is a little difficult to follow his conversation. Early last week Don Jaime said something which was interpreted to mean that he was going off on "a little automobile trip." At the last moment the family discovered that what he really intended to do was rush off to Bayonne and marry an unknown Spanish...
Just to make things more difficult Poet Cummings has a vivid if erratic sense of humor. Many of his more intricate effects are meant as jokes. Plodding enthusiasts cannot always tell which is which...