Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST - Reviewed in this issue...
...Importance of Being Earnest. Oscar Wilde is probably the least played of all the important dramatists* of the '90s. It is believed by shrewd financiers of the theatre that epigrams will not keep. These men are right, as usual, from a financial viewpoint. It is doubtful whether the engaging and lancelike humors of this piece will interest a great many people for a protracted period. On the other hand, the production seems one of the very few this season that the true lover of the theatre cannot afford to miss...
...faculty cast 131 votes against the proposal and 141 for it, and it seems fairly certain that those who disapproved did so because they believe preliminary divisionals in Junior year would make Senior year an anticlimax. As one professor wrote on his ballot: "Life is real, life is earnest, and its goal is not a loafing Senior year." That Junior divisionals would bring about this result may be seriously questioned. The Student Council Committee drew up a very large program for distinction men in Senior year, and if the opposing faculty members had this in mind (as they must have...
...ankle, is right tomorrow and the track is dry he may push Captain Tibbetts to a new two mile record. Tibbetts has had his eye on this mark for over a year now and with the proper conditions this afternoon he will probably go out after it in earnest...
...defeated Senator McKinley in the Illinois primary recently. Besides, the Administration nodded to Congress, "Go ahead with farm bills if you don't go too far." So Mr. Haugen and his colleagues (there are 13 Republicans and 9 Democrats on the Committee on Agriculture) set to work in earnest to turn out bills dealing with the farm surplus problem...