Word: duds
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...hearing the President of Harvard since he's been writing copy for the CRIMSON.... and he didn't intend to spoil his record. So, in his petty anger, he unthinkingly insinuated that the Far East Philosopher was not moved by the altruistic impulses hitherto ascribed, but was avoiding another dud on the Holy Cross game (Dr. Huey picked Harvard to win easily last year) and, furthermore, didn't know a polo mallet from a wicker-basket. He concluded his remarks with the slur that the prophet had been out of practice, insofar as the sons of Nassau were concerned...
...this, but he can not wholly and openly condone it. The receptions are always bad. Everyone tells lies about the groom and trys furtively to take two pieces of wedding cake. And if one begins to kiss the bridesmaids, along about the third one he runs into an absolute dud whose smile would make a horse shy. This dud accounts for the endless conversations that one sees going on. The poor fool is trying to decide just what to do. And if one doesn't kiss the bridesmaids its no fun at all. And the Vagabond has never been able...
...fundamentals of workmanship. . . . There have been arid epochs before this, such as the Victorian and its equivalent across the Channel in the Paris of Napoleon III. . . . Mediocrity in those days had a stupendous vogue. Modernism is but repeating history. It will someday prove a kind of Victorian 'dud,' with a difference, obviously, but a 'dud' just the same...
...extreme morbidity, with a moral to be learned, but shown in a most unconvincing tale. This tale stands cross examination better. All this is due, no doubt, to Miss Yurka's presentation. In less skilled hands. "The Wild Duck" could easily be produced as no more than another Ibsen dud...