Word: dismissiveness
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...City Chap. A good many seasons back John Barrymore was helping people dismiss their troubles in a comedy by Winchell Smith called The Fortune Hunter. Charles Dillingham has resuscitated this hardy veteran, set it to music by Jerome Kern, and given Richard ("Skeet") Gallagher the leading role. It is doubtful if Mr. Gallagher will ever be a Barrymore; yet he serves the purpose well enough. It is doubtful if The City Chap will be a sensation; yet it, too, is sufficient for its purpose...
...would be decidedly unfair to dismiss the play because of its glaring defects. There are a gorgeous fabric of southern dialog, a true echo of the indomitable manhood of What Price Glory, a thrilling love scene, and some moments of shrewd excitement. The play will undoubtedly remain as a valuable, if fanciful, page of U. S. history. The acting of Rudolph Cameron and Helen Chandler in the chief parts was more than satisfactory. And the play is probably the only one ever produced through which the difficult southern dialect was consistently and convincingly maintained...
...undecided a number of important cases, including the charge of contempt of the Senate against Mal S. Daugherty, brother of the former Attorney General (for refusing to produce his bank records) ; the "Oregon postmaster case," which rests on a question never yet determined: whether the President has power to dismiss an official whom he appointed with the consent of the Senate...
Perhaps this is what Mr. Clark meant by the "flapper" mind. His mistake has been to dismiss all student animadversion as being of this type. He almost ignores the serious and thoughtful criticism of American life in general, and of college life in particular, now appearing in many college papers. In some of them, at least, vagaries have given place to direct and definite analysis. The Dartmouth, for example, has seized upon some of the salient faults of "this generation of ours." Says the Hanover paper: "We are the froth of the post-war wave. This generation of ours...
There is a rumor that this Class Day number is Lampy's final bow for the year. If this be true, it would not be well to dismiss the jovial jester without earnest praise. Lampy has undoubtedly been greatly rejuvenated this year, and has shown promise of regaining a lost standard of virtue. The Literary Digest and Business School numbers are too outstanding to require mention, while the issue in commemoration of the Irish saint was not far behind in point of excellence...